APC Women Leader Killed in Kwara

Date: 2022-03-21

A woman leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was reportedly killed in Kwara state over the weekend during an exchange of gun fire in a rescue operation between the bandits and combined team of soldiers and hunters.

The woman, identified as Mrs. Olumo Abolaji, APC Women Leader in Koro ward of Ekiti Local Government was one of the eight people kidnapped on Wednesday evening between Araromi Opin and Obbo-Ile in Ekiti local government area of the state.

The politicians, who were all from Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, were returning home the swearing-in of the state executives of the party performed by the state governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in Ilorin when the gunmen suspected to be bandits waylaid them.

It was gathered that five of the eight people involved had escaped from the kidnappers.

According to Mr. Adekunle Oluwole, a relative to one of the victims ,who said that five of the eight people involved escaped from the kidnappers listed those involved, as the Isapa Ward Chairman in Ekiti local government area of the state, Mr Daniel Adewuyi; the Eruku ward Chairman; Women Leader Eruku; Women Leader Obbo Ile; Chairman Obbo Ile Ward; Women Leader Koro ward; and Women Leader Isapa ward, among others.

He, however, said that the women leaders of Eruku ward, Obbo-Ile ward and Koro ward were taken away into the forest by the kidnappers.

He said that some of the victims who escaped from the bandits were taken to the hospital in the area for treatment, adding that some politicians from the area including Mr. Ganiyu Abolarin, an elected member of the Kwara state House of Assembly representing Ekiti local government state Constituency and Mr. Wale Awelewa, Chairman of APC in Ekiti local government were in the hospital to wish them quick recovery.

Oluwole also hinted that four Hilux vans loaded with soldiers, local hunters and vigilance men were drafted to the forest to trail the kidnappers and rescued the victims.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Kwara Police Command, Ajayi Okasanmi , could not be reached for his reaction on the fate of the kidnapped victims yesterday as his phone line was switched off.

But, a senior police officer in the state police command, who sought anonymity, confirmed the incident to THISDAY.

He, however, declined to speak further on the issue.

Also, the state chairman of APC in Prince Sunday Fagbemi, confirmed the incident to journalists yesterday saying that "two of the three victims were rescued alive".

Fagbemi said: "Two of our party women leaders in Eruku ward and Obbo-Ile ward were rescued alive, but unfortunately we lost one of them because the woman leader of Koro ward was killed by the bandits".

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Lateef Fagbemi     Isiaka Danmeromu     Moji Makanjuola     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Moses Salami     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Danladi     Imam Gambari     Facemasks     Lanre Badmas     Lafia Aliyu Korasabi     National Information Technology Development Agency     Lola Olabayo     Christopher Odetunde     Haliru Dantoro     Lawal Jimoh     Okiki     Neo Mundo Ltd     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Ayekale     Kamaldeen Gambari     Yahaya Dumoye     Ganiyu Abolarin     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Lanre Jimoh     Islamic Development Bank     Agor     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Oke-Ero     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     UNILORIN Alumni     Gamji Members Association     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Saidu Yaro Musa     MalHub     Okedare     Salake     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Zara Umar     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Yakub Lai Gobir     Unicontinental Construction Company     Sunday Popo-Ola     JAMB     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Olawuyi     Bello Oyedepo     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Kwara University Of Education     Abubakar Baba     Al-Hikmah Radio     Towoju     08001000100     Bank Of Industry     HICA     Hakeem Lawal     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Durbar     Olatinwo     Tsaragi     Razak Atunwa     IQRA College     Musa Aibinu     Yakubu Dogara     COVID-19 Palliatives     Grillo     Kolawole Bashirat     Baruba     Ilorin General Hospital     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Jamiu Oyawoye     Olosi Of Osi     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

A.E. Afolabi     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Saad Omo\'ya     Kwara Metro Park     Saba Jibril     Hassan Saliu     ITP     John Kehinde Salako     Millennium Development Goals     Rasaq Jimoh     Mohammed Abdulahi     Al-Hikmah Radio     Muritala Olarewaju     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     NIPOGA     NITDA     Arinola Lawal     Kwara Basketball Association     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Ajidagba     Ibrahim Gambari     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Olatunde Jare     Abdulwahab Oba     General Hospital, Ilorin     Abdullahi Biffo     Peter Obi     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Mamman Saba Jibril     Oke-Ode     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Dele Momodu     Aisha Buhari     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Ayinke Saka     Amuda Aluko     General Hospital     Baba Issa     Yashikira     Bamidele Adegoke     Hamidu Olowo     Kolawole Bashirat     Lanre Olosunde     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Grillo     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Ajayi Okasanmi     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Vasolar     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     IESA     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Ayedun     Ilorin Durbar     Haliru Yahaya     Kishira     Ilorin Central Mosque     Kola Bukoye     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Rebecca Bake     Saad Omo Iya     Saliu Ajia     REO CAKES     Kwara Poly     Idowu Laro     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Ilorin Muslim Community     Alaiye     Olatinwo     Ethical College     Kayode Yusuf