– Reports emerging from Ilorin, the capital of
Kwara state have it that the chairman of the
ruling party in Kwara state, the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Hon Ishola
Balogun Fulani and his secretary, Chief Bode
Adekanye have both been abducted by
gunmen
– The APC chairman and the party’s scribe
were kidnapped around the Lokoja-Okene
highway in Kogi state
– The ugly incident occurred on Friday, May
2o at gun point
Vanguard learnt that the abduction of the ruling
party’s stalwarts in Kwara state has brought
chaos into the state and thrown the Kwara state
government and the APC in the state into
confusion, as government officials and party
members, were seen gathered in different
groups talking about the sad event.
The abducted All Progressives Congress
chairman in Kwara, Hon Ishola Balogun Fulani
and the secretary, Chief Bode Adekanye The activities of abductors have not gone down
as a former minister of education was abducted
by armed men alongside her security aide along
Igbogila road in the evening on Wednesday,
April 27.
Alhaji Sulyman Buhari, the spokesperson of the
APC in Kwara state confirmed the sad
occurrence, while fielding questions from
newsmen on the night of Friday, May 20.
He said the abduction happened about 10
o’clock in the morning of Friday, May 20 when
the APC Kwara state chairman and his secretary
were coming back to Ilorin from Abuja, the
nation’s federal capital.
Buhari stated: “We received a call from the line
of the chairman around this time, (10am) telling
us of the kidnapping issue. No ransom was
mentioned and all attempts to make further
enquiries from them proved abortive as the line
was no longer available.
“We are on it to see if we can still establish a link
with them. We have taken all the necessary
steps and linked up with relevant security
operatives to ensure their safety and eventual
release.”
In other reports emerging in the early hours of
Friday, May 20 learnt that, the APC seems to be
facing some internal wranglings, as Senator
Shehu Sani reacted to the threat by the Kaduna
state chapter of the APC to expel him from the
party.
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