An accident that occurred along the Ajaokuta-Lokoja road on Saturday has claimed the lives of four staff members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a youth corps member and a three-year-old girl.
It was a black day for the electoral agency on receiving the tragic news about the victims who were returning from Ayingba, Kogi, where they attended the wedding ceremony of a colleague. Among the victims is a National Youth Service Corps member who was performing his primary assignment with the INEC office in Lokoja and that of a child one of the INEC staff members. 
Bodies of the victims who worked in the Information and Communication Technology and Accounts departments of INEC have been moved to the morgue of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja, the Director of Voter Education and Publicity at Kogi Office of INEC, Ahmed Biambo said.Photo Credit: Getty
