Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) Two Nigerian electoral commission offices housing voting materials were burned down within the space of a week -- just a few days before the country's presidential election, the nation's electoral body said Sunday.

Nigeria's Independent Electoral Electoral Commission said more than 10,000 permanent voters' cards and 755 ballot boxes were destroyed in two fire incidents in Abia and Plateau states last week.

The INEC did not say who was responsible for the fires, but it said it had notified the Acting Inspector General of Police on the "emerging trend of burning the electoral commissions' offices" days before the February 16 vote.

Elections will go as ahead as scheduled in the affected states, the commission said, adding that it had made arrangements to print new voter cards to replace those destroyed in the fire.

"The Commission wishes to assure Nigerians that it will not succumb to the antics of an arsonist whose motive might create fear in the minds of voters and sabotage the conduct of the 2019 general elections," said INEC spokesman Festus Okoye.

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