Police Arrest Labour Party Chairman, Abure Amid Multibillion-Naira Fraud Allegations

The national chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, has been arrested by the police in Benin City, the Edo State capital.

A video showing how Abure was arrested by some armed police officers emerged on the internet Wednesday afternoon.

Videos and pictures of the incident were uploaded on X by @PIDOMNIGERIA (99% OPPRESSED).

It was learnt that a petition written by the LP Youth Leader, Comrade Eragbe Anselm Aphimia had accused Abure of committing violent acts against him.

Also, the suspended National Treasurer of the Labour Party, Mrs Oluchi Opara, had insisted that Abure must submit the party’s finances to a forensic audit and explain the source of funds used by him to acquire properties in Nigeria and overseas between 2022 and 2023.

Opara, who was suspended by the party on earlier this month, in her memo to the party’s leadership obtained by SaharaReporters, stated that Abure must account for the “N958million raised from off-cycle elections in 2023, provide paper trails and documentary evidence of adherence to due process.”

She added that the party’s national chairman must “declare every single dollar raised from the 2023 US fundraising tour and provide documentation on where donations were warehoused and how same was appropriated.”