The Nigeria Police Force Zone 5 has released the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Julius Abure.
Abure and others were released on bail on Thursday around 2am, a spokesman for the police zone, Tijani Momoh, told Channels Television.
Also, LP national spokesman, Obiora Ifoh, confirmed that the embattled 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,” Ifoh said on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, The Morning Brief.
“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 otehr members of our party who were arrested with him.
The 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.
