"We call for an independent commission of inquiry to ascertain the reasons why armed officers raided our office," the All Progressive Congress (APC) deputy chairman Lawal Shuaibu told the BBC.
The party said computers were destroyed and documents seized during the raid.
The State Security Service said it was investigating alleged cloning of voter cards, ahead of elections in February.
"The petition alleged that those behind the activities were cloning Inec [Independent Electoral Commission] permanent voters cards, with the intention of hacking into [the] Inec database, corrupting it and replacing them with their own data," the SSS said.
"Based on this information, the Service placed the building under surveillance and having been convinced that some unwholesome activities were going on in the building, it undertook a raid of the premises."
It said its agents had taken away a server, three hard drives and 31 bags of documents on Saturday.
'Watergate'
But the APC said the incident was "another one in the string of attacks and illegal actions of the administration".
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