LP Chairman Usman claims assailants broke into Labour Party offices in Abuja, seizing documents and damaging property, prompting police deployment.
The National Chairman of Labour Party, Senator Nenadi Usman, has raised concern over alleged violent attack on the headquarters of the party in Abuja by loyalist of the ousted chairman, Mr. Julius Abure.
THISDAY learnt that Abure’s loyalist had stormed the party premises at 8pm on Wednesday night and forcefully broke into several offices, carting away documents and other valuables.
The attackers also pulled down the billboard with the picture of Usman and the National Secretary of the party during the attack.
As a fallout of the night attack, the Nigerian Police immediately deployed its men to take charge of security at the party premises.
Addressing journalists shortly after she led party leaders and a delegation of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on assessment tour of the damaged facilities, Usman said the attackers broke the doors to gain entry into the offices, describing as a terrible and criminal act.
She said the idea of wanting to destroy an office when leaving it is very bad and unbecoming of a leader.
“I think every institution must be respected, and there must be institutional memory. When you walk in an in an office, a ministry, a political party, office, whatever, every document that belongs to that office belongs to the office.
“When is your time to go? You go and you leave the document, so that those who come from you know from behind, know what has happened, and they will build on it.
“But for us to say that whenever you are leaving a ministry or you are leaving a political party office, you must still come in the night, steal all the documents and run away, you see, there is something terribly wrong about it,” she said.
The Labour Party national chairman said the matter has been reported to security agencies and that she expected that appropriate measures would be taken to bring the perpetrators to justice.
“I’m calling on security agencies to take measures on it. We have reported. And some of them, you can see, they are out there. So we have reported to them.
“You know, people should not think Nigeria is a lawless nation where you can do anything anyhow and get away with it,” she said.
Speaking on the alleged role of an officer of the Department of State Security Services attached to Abure in the attack, Usman said it was least expected for a security personnel to participate in such an illegal act.
“I’m sure the DG, DSS and his entire team, when they hear this, they will be heartbroken, but I’m very, very sure they will not let it go,” she said.
Earlier while giving an account of the incident, a security man at party Headquarters, Aminu Salisu said some men led by Abure came to the place by 8 pm and broke into the offices of national chairman and Secretary carting away documents.
Also, the Acting General Secretary of NLC, Comrade Benson Upah, condemned the destruction of facilities