An angry mob suspected to be thugs loyal to the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure, on Monday attacked protesters, said to have come from the Edo State chapter to the party’s Abuja national secretariat to demand Abure’s removal.

Trouble began when the anti-Abure protesters stormed the LP headquarters in a number of vehicles, carrying placards and chanting solidarity songs.

After some of the protesters alighted from one of the vehicles, the suspected thugs attacked the vehicles with sticks and other objects, chasing the drivers away from the area.

Armed policemen and Department of State Security operatives intervened when the thugs started throwing stones into the nearby Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists to chasing away newsmen from covering the fracas.

Security officials later brought the situation under control and prevented the situation from further degenerating.