APC supporters
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State, Henry Ashofor, and three other party members have been reportedly kidnapped near Aiyetoro along the Igarra Ibillo road.
The incident reportedly occured at about 5:00p.m, on Saturday, shortly after the chairman and other top politicians from the area attended a burial ceremony in Igarra, the headquarters of the local government area.
“We were together at the party with several other political leaders and he left us and his followers to go back to Ibillo.
“We were shocked when we were told that he has been kidnapped. They were taken at gun point and led into the bush,” a party chieftain said.
The police were yet to make an official statement on the incident at the time of filing the report, but security personnel attached to the Chief of Staff to Governor Godwin Obaseki, Taiwo Akerele, who immediately mobilised to the area, arrested a suspect believed to be an informant and is currently with the police, in Igarra.