KIDAPPED APC ASPIRANT: FCT POLICE ARREST 3 GANG MEMBERS; DEPLOY OVER 100 POLICE OFFICERS TO KWALI.
The FCT Police Command yesterday arrested three members of the gang that kidnaped an APC Gubernatorial Aspirant in Ondo State, Victor Olabintan who was on his way to Abuja from Akure before an armed gang pretending to be Military guys on checkpoint, flagged his car down at Kwali and abducted him.
News of the abduction of the APC aspirant Vanguard gathered, took the FCT Police Commissioner of Police, Wilson Inalegwu by surprise and he immediately mobilized a crack team with the P personally leading them to Kwali.
Consequently, more than 70 policemen including MOPOL, Counter Terror Unit, Police Dog unit and CID branch officers were moved to Kwali to comb the community.
Vanguard later gathered that three members of the gang who are from a tribe in the North currently associated with issues including Cattle Rustling, Kidnapping and destruction of farmlands, were arrested and they confessed to be members of the gang that perpetrated the dastardly act.
It was gathered that the Commissioner of Police through discreet investigation, has been able to reach out to other members of the gang and that the kidnappers of the aspirant, were demanding for payment of ransom said to be in the millions of naira.
Police sources however told Vanguard that CP Inalegwu is determined to ensure the rescue of the aspirant before midnight of Monday (yesterday).
Recall that the former Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, and aspirant in the of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the state’s 2016 Governorship election, Victor Olabintan, was reportedly kidnapped on his way to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
According to Gboyega Ajayi, Secretary of the Olabintan Campaign Organization, Olabintan was kidnapped on his way to Abuja from Akure, the capital of Ondo.
Ajayi said the APC chieftain was kidnapped at Kwali after he was flagged down at a military checkpoint by fake soldiers who turned out to be kidnappers.
His abduction came barely 48 hours after he declared his intention to run for the APC governorship ticket in the state.
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