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.

Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Patience Jonathan     Alimi     Kanu Agabi     Magaji Erubu     Yakub Lai Gobir     John Kehinde Salako     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Abraysports FC     Obuh     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     AbdulHamid Adi     TIIDELab     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Adijat Adebiyi     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Neo Mundo Ltd     Ahman Pategi University     Dunmade     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     Police Commissioner     Okiki     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Dauda Adesola     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Ethical College     Leke Ogungbe     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Jaiz Bank     Bankole Omishore     Danhawa     Aminat Omodara     Olam Food Ingredients     Amusement Park     Saliu Ajia     Aliyu Umar     HICA     Ashiru     Ahmed Dankaya     Binta Sulyman     Bola Olukoju     National Party Of Nigeria     Elese Of Igbaja     Oko-Olowo     Ayodele Shittu     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Justina Oha     IYA YUSUF     Fulani     Shoprite     Salman Suleiman     Adeola Abraham     Curfew     Dumagi     Ola Falade     Garba Ado Sanni     IPSAS     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Ita-Ore     Yakubu Dogara     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh     Hamid Bobboyi     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Adamu Attah     Segun Olawoyin     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Local Government     National Broadcasting Commission     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Salmon Babatunde Salmon    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Maimunat Oloriegbe     Riskat Opakunle     Sadiq Umar     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Simeon Ajibola     Ilesha-Gwanara     Shuaib Jawondo     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Iponrin     Baba Issa Awoye     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Kale Bayero     Sunset Workers     JMK Construction Company Limited     Royal FM     Peculiar Allowance     Raliat Islamic Foundation     March 28     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Jaigbade Alao     Awili Pedro     Oke-Ero     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Michael Nzekwe     Rachael Obisesan     Ashiru     Galland Marcias     Ojuekun Sarumi     Oluronke Adeyemi     Okanlawon Musa     Adanla-Irese     Hassan Taiye Salam     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Abdulraheem Olesin     Oja-Oba     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     CCEPE     Baba Isale     Gbajabiamila     Hijaab     Gobir     Abubakar Aliagan     Shoprite     Young Progressives Party     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Bola Sagaya     Senate Presidency     Oke-Ogun     Aremu Odolaye     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Kwara 2015     Bureau Of Lands     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Osuwa     University Road     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Lai Mohammed     Smart School     Owo Isowo     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Suleiman Abubakar     Olam Food Ingredients     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Asa LGEA School     Taofeek Sanusi     Apado     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Taiwo Joseph     Ibrahim Abiodun     Harmony Holdings     Alliance For Democracy     Oba-Solagberu     Olushola Saraki