The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) says its preliminary investigations reveal the Electoral Commission office at Fomena was intentionally set on fire on December 8.

Speaking to JoyNews, Divisional Officer Grade III (DO III), Oscar Opoku said his team found a gallon with petrol all over it at the side of the building.

Eyewitness accounts also revealed that occupants in the office smelt petrol come from the window before the fire started.

The Fire Service also found a hole made on the side of the building which they explained, could have been used to get the fire into the office.

"The EC's documents got burnt but the ballot boxes and the papers are all intact," DO III Opoku told JoyNews' Nana Yaw Gyimah.

The police has been tasked to take over the matter as the fire service rounds up its investigation.

The Fomena District Electoral Office was gutted by fire shortly after the EC announced Independent candidate Andrews Amoako Asiamah as the winner of the parliamentary election that Tuesday.

At the time of the incident some NPP members had gathered at the collation center not far from the office.

They were protesting the results of the parliamentary elections claiming it was rigged.

Aside from the fire, men associated with the dismissed NPP MP, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, turned Independent candidate were attacked by people alleged to be working for some party executives in the area.

However, the party has denied all allegations with the parliamentary candidate stating "I will be a fool to do that."

Philip Ofori Asante explained that the constituency has been an NPP stronghold thus the party will not intentionally attack constituents.