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October 24, 2022
The victim was said to have recently dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress and joined the Peoples Democratic Party.
Safiu, the step brother of Abdulkarim Asuku, the Chief of Staff to Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello, in Kogi State has been allegedly abducted by gunmen working for the governor.
SaharaReporters gathered that Safiu was abducted on Monday by the governor’s hit-men led by a Nigerian Navy officer identified only as Charles.
The victim was said to have recently dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress and joined the Peoples Democratic Party.
“The boy’s name is Safiu, he is actually a step brother to the Chief of Staff. He was with APC and switched to PDP. Reason he was kidnapped. They fear he knows much about their atrocities. He was working as political thug to Yahaya Bello before he left APC; he was involved in many attacks on political opponents in Kogi State. So, they felt losing him to PDP would be disastrous,” a source said.
“So they sent Nigerian Navy officers who are loyal to the governor to kidnap him today. The hit-men working for the governor picked him up; they have taken him somewhere else. The group who kidnapped him was led by one Charles; he is the head of the hit-men working for Yahaya Bello.
“The whereabouts of the guy kidnapped is currently unknown as he is not in the naval base.”