Fire guts Ondo governor’s office

From Bamigbola Gbolagunte, Akure

AN inferno has gutted Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s office located at Alagbaka area of Akure, the state capital.
The fire, which lasted for about 30 minutes, caused seri­ous confusion among workers, political functionaries and vis­itors at the governor’s office.
The incident also disrupted the visit of the National Chair­man of the Peoples Demo­cratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu-Sherif who was being hosted by Mimiko when the fire started.
Mimiko and Sherif, with their security aides, scampered for safety, just as the meeting organised for the visiting PDP national chairman was disrupt­ed when the fire started.
Although the cause of the inferno could not be ascer­tained as at press time, it was gathered that an electricity surge might have caused the fire.
It, however, took men of the state fire services about 30 minutes before the fire could be brought under control.
The state government, it was gathered, has set up a committee to investigate the cause, with a view to determin­ing factors responsible for it.
It was learnt that valuables belonging to the state govern­ment were destroyed in the inferno.