The Labour Party (LP) in Nigeria has alleged that its national chairman, Julius Abure, escaped an assassination attempt on Wednesday after his residence in Abuja mysteriously caught fire while the family slept.
The party’s national publicity secretary, Obiora Ifoh issued a statement confirming the fire incident at Abure’s Abuja home at 1 a.m. on Wednesday, April 3.
The statement partly reads:
“The National Chairman of the Labour Party, Barrister Julius Abure early this morning allegedly escaped an assassination attempt on him at his Abuja residence.
“His 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 Ifoh, a family member recounted the incident, that the family was awoken by neighbors and security personnel in their compound, alerting them to a fire.
However, there was no way to escape as the fire had spread to the staircase.
With the help of neighbours and security personnel, they managed to break a window and escape. The Fire Service arrived after the family was evacuated.
“… it took divine intervention for the national chairman and his family to escape after neighbors and security men gallantly pulled down one of the windows upstairs making ways for the family to escape,” he said.
The LP publicity secretary disclosed that Abure and his family were rushed to a private hospital for medical attention.