By Eric Elezuo
The apex Nigerian court, the Supreme Court, has said that fire incident which occurred in a portion of its building on Monday morning has no connection to the presidential election petitions filed by the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, contrary to insinuations.
Speaking during an interview on Arise TV shortly after the fire was reported, the Public Relations Officer of the Supreme Court, Festus Akande, stated that the fire outbreak has no connection with the petition in court.
He noted that the fire outbreak affected a chamber with a computer, equipment and functional library due to an electrical fault.
He said, “As a matter of fact, there’s no single connection, and it won’t affect anything in the court.
“This incident occurred in a chamber equipped with a computer and other equipment, as well as a functional library used by any justice occupying such chamber.
“The only thing that was affected were the books and computer equipment in the chamber. Even the books are replaceable.
“Also, it has nothing to do with it because it was from an electrical fault, which could happen anywhere, and there are things that happen daily.”
Fire on Monday gutted a section of the chambers of a Justice of the Supreme Court, Mohammed Saulawa.
Witnesses said it took the timely intervention of the court’s and the federal fire services to put out the fire suspected to have started in the chambers located on the third floor of the sprawling court complex.
