The southeast national vice chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Comrade Ceekay Igara, has been arrested, along with Prince G.O. Nwabueze, who was later identified as the Secretary of the State Working Committee of the party.
According to reports, Igara and Nwabueze were apprehended in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State, by operatives of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS), a division of the Abia State Police Command, with their base located at the Aba North Local Government Area headquarters.
Comrade Igara, a former LP State Chairman in Abia, is a loyal member of the faction supporting the embattled National Chairman of the party, Julius Abure.