The Labour Party has announced that the Abuja residence of its National Chairman, Barrister Julius Abure was gutted by fire on Wednesday morning.
The party claimed it was an alleged assassination attempt on his life.
A statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, on Wednesday, said Abure’s “residence was also gutted by a mysterious fire which started a few minutes after 1 am while Abure and the members of his family were asleep”.
It said, “According to a member of the family who narrated the incidence, the family was woken up by neighbours and security men living in the compound who raised the alarm.
“The entire family were trapped as the inferno had reached the staircase making it impossible for Abure and family to escape.
“However, it took divine intervention for the national chairman and his family to escape after neighbours and security men gallantly pulled down one of the windows upstairs making way for the family to escape.
“Men of the Fire Service arrived shortly after Abure and his family were evacuated.”
It said that Abure and his family were rushed to a private hospital “where they are presently receiving treatment”.
Their condition is however stable, it added.
