By Halimah Olamide
The embattled National Chairman of the Labour Party Julius Abure has regained his freedom.
He was released along others who were arrested on Wednesday in Benin the Edo state capital.
Abure was manhandled before he was whisked away to the Zone 5 headquarters of the Police.
Acording to a Spokeman for the zone 5 of the Police, Tijani Momoh, Abure and others were released on bail on Thursday around 2am.
Also, LP national spokesman, Obiora Ifoh, confirmed on a monitored Channels TV beeakfast show said that the national chairman, who was arrested 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,”
“It’s true that he was arrested, brutalised yesterday (Wednesday) by a combined team of police and the DSS but he was released last night along with four others members of our party who were arrested with him.”
Recall police had said Abure was arrested for attempted murder, illegal possession of firearms, and related offences.
Momoh had told newsmen that Abure and four others were arrested over a petition written against them by a petitioner whose name he did not mention.
He said an allegation of attempted murder was levelled against Abure. “There are video clips, recordings of the petitioner being assaulted, being beaten when he came home last year to conduct ward matters,” Momoh said.
“It is a case of attempted murder, conspiracy, illegal possession of arms and other related offences.
“They were also in possession of firearms; a short gun and three rounds of ammunition.”
However, Ifoh said Abure was not in anyway involved in the attack of a former National Youth Leader of the party, Anslem Eragbe, in Edo State last December.