The Benue Commissioner for Lands and Survey, Mr John Tondo , said a restroom in his Makurdi residence was on Sunday completely burnt down by fire.

Tondo, who is also a gubernatorial aspirant in the 2015 elections in the state, however, said while conducting newsmen round the scene of the incident that the inferno had nothing to do with his political ambition.

“This has nothing to do with my political ambition. It was as a result of a problem from public power source which can happen to anybody.

“The incident occurred as a result of a spark from the transformer that gutted the bushes around it and mistakenly through the air gutted my restroom.

“I thank God that it has not affected the main building and nobody was hurt,” he said.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that men of the State Fire Service and some of the commissioner’s neighbours helped to put out the fire.