APC gov aspirant abducted in Abuja 48 hours after he declared his intention to run

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, has been reportedly kidnapped in  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.

According to Ajayi, police personnel in Abuja are currently on the kidnappers’ trail.

Vanguard