Chaos as LP Factional Chairman, Julius Abure, Attacked in Benin Airport

After Julius Abure, the LP’s factional national chairman, was physically assaulted at the Benin Airport in Edo State on Friday, the party’s conflict took a violent turn.
Obiora Ifoh, the National Publicity Secretary of the Abure-led group, said in a statement that the event happened when Abure was being harassed by a woman who went by the name of Precious Oruche, also called Mama P, as she boarded a Max Air aircraft from Abuja to Benin.

Ifoh reportedly said that Oruche challenged Abure in the boarding line at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, which is where the altercation started.

Ifoh claimed that even after flight attendants intervened to calm her down, she persisted in the attack during the journey.

After arriving at Benin Airport, the scene apparently intensified as Oruche allegedly tried to lunge at Abure once more before being escorted away by security personnel and turned over to the police.

According to the LP spokesperson, Oruche, who is a content producer and a member of a “known political family,” also boasted in one of her online videos that she was untouchable because of her contacts in the police hierarchy.

“You have killed Labour Party and you are the reason why Obi is no longer in the Labour Party,” she allegedly said, vowing to keep attacking Abure and other party officials, according to Ifoh.

Described as a “suicidal aggression” against the party’s leadership, Ifoh condemned the act.

He went on to say, “The Labour Party’s leadership is really disturbed by this cyberbullying and the effects this political agent’s actions have had on the party. We are urging the Inspector General of Police to look into this attack on the Labour Party leadership, and specifically on Barrister Julius Abure, in detail.

He emphasized that the attack was an intentional attempt by anti-democratic forces to undermine the party and asked members to maintain composure while the authorities dealt with the situation.