Gunmen on Sunday kidnapped Mallam Sani
Ribadu, a junior brother of the Chairman of
the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.
A source said Sani was kidnapped in his farm
along Fufore, about 15kilometres to Yola.
There were fears the abduction might not be
unconnected with politics.
Ribadu is one of the leading contenders for
the governorship seat of the state said to be
enjoying the support of the major stakeholders
of the People’s Democratic Party in Abuja and
Yola.
Sani is said to have been seized during a
routine inspection visit to his farm on
Sunday.
But there was suspicion of political motives
last night because Sani was rated as “central
to the campaign coordination of the ex-EFCC
chairman.”
Apart from being a former chairman of Yola
South Local Government Area, Sani Ribadu
was also a former member of Adamawa State
House of Assembly.
“The ex-LGA chairman was abducted and his
car left intact on the farm. We cannot locate
his whereabouts,” a source hinted last night.
“Apart from alerting the police, a search team
has been put in place.”
“We are suspecting that he might have been
targeted. But it is too early to draw any
conclusion.”
The Special Assistant on Media to the ex-EFCC
chairman, Mallam Abdulazeez Abdulazeez,
who spoke with our correspondent at about
10pm, said: “It is true that some gunmen
kidnapped Oga’s brother or cousin to put it in
better perspective.”
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