By Akinwale Kasali
Controversially re-elected National Chairman of the Labour Party, LP, Julius Abure has raised alarm over an alleged threat to his life. He is alleging a plot by yet to be identified assailants over his life.
The alarm he raised was triggered by the mysterious fire which engulfed his Abuja house in the midst of the crisis rocking the Party.
Disclosing the unfortunate incident, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, in a statement in Abuja, alleged that Abure escaped “an assassination attempt at his residence.”
Ifoh said: “His (Abure’s) residence was also gutted by a mysterious fire, which started a few minutes after 1 a.m while Abure and the members of his family were asleep.
“According to a member of the family, who narrated the incidence, the family was woken up by neighbours and security men living in the compound, who raised the alarm.
“The entire family were trapped as the inferno had reached the staircase making it impossible for Abure and family to escape.
“However, it took divine intervention for the national chairman and his family to escape after neighbours and security men gallantly pulled down one of the windows upstairs making ways for the family to escape.
“Men of the Fire Service arrived shortly after Abure and his family were evacuated.
“Abure and his family were rushed to a private hospital where they are presently receiving treatment. Their condition is however stable.”
It would be recalled that Abure has been at the center of it all in the past few months as Veterans of the Labour Union had called for his immediate resignation few days to his controversial re-election as the National President of the Party.
He has also been at loggerheads with the Lamidi Apapa led faction of the Labour Party, who had taken him to Court on several occasion over the Chairmanship Stool of the Party.
Few weeks ago, he was enmeshed in Crisis with the Joe Ajaero led Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, who also called for his resignation.
