Police Release LP’s Chairman Abure On Bail

Nigeria Police Force Zone 5 has released the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure, soures learnt.

Abure and others were released on bail on Thursday around 2am, spokesman for the police zone, Tijani Momoh, told news sources.

Additionally, LP national spokesman, Obiora Ifoh, affirmed that the troubled national chairman, who was apprehended by policemen in Benin City, the Edo State capital, on Wednesday afternoon was released Thursday morning.

“Julius Abure is in his hotel room here in Benin City,” Ifoh said on a television show.

“It’s true that he was arrested, brutalized yesterday (Wednesday) by a combined team of police and the DSS but he was released last night along with four other members of our party who were arrested with him.”