SAN FRANCISCO, February 12, (THEWILL) – Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, was in chaos as strange fire erupted in the house of former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday night.
The house located at Ita-Eko area of Abeokuta was gutted by fire about 9:30pm believed to have been triggered by a power surge.
Residents of the area and sympathizers who trooped out to the scene joined Obasanjo’s domestic workers in the house in frantic battle to put out the fire and it took nearly an hour to quench the inferno which spread from one end to another following the harmattan breeze.
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The state Director of Fire Service, Fatai Adefala, confirmed the incident but said that the fire affected a store in the compound and not the main building in the former president’s compound.
He said officials of the agency swiftly responded to distress calls over the fire about 10:00pm and succeeded in putting it out.
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