Earlier on Wednesday, the Media Head of the NLC, Benson Upah, said Ajaero was picked up from the Imo council secretariat of the NLC by heavily armed police officers.
“President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Joe Ajaero, was picked up a few minutes ago from NLC state council secretariat by heavily armed policemen in Owerri and taken to an unknown destination”, Upah had said.