{"id":59626,"date":"2018-11-08T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59626"},"modified":"2018-11-08T17:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:36:59","slug":"gunmen-abduct-ondo-adc-chairman-senatorial-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59626","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Abduct Ondo ADC Chairman, Senatorial Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BREAKING-Gunmen-Abduct-Ondo-ADC-Chairman-Senatorial-Candidate.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gunmen have abducted Bisi Ogungbemi, Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Ondo State.<\/p>\n<p>SaharaReporters learnt that Ogungbemi was abducted alongside Jide Ipinsagba, a Senatorial candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Ipinsagba is the ADC Senatorial Candidate in Ondo North for the 2019 general election and had left the All Progressives Congress (APC) after he failed to secure the party&#8217;s ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Sources confirmed to our correspondent that the two other occupants of the vehicle they were travelling in were also kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ADC chieftains were abducted on Wednesday evening on the Ikare-Owo road after a political meeting. They were waylaid and some other party starwalts together with the driver of the vehicle were also abducted,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Femi Joseph, Police Spokesperson in Ondo State Command, confirmed the incident but said the details were still sketchy.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph told SaharaReporters via phone call that the real identity of those abducted was still not clear to the Police as at Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is true a kidnap occurred around the Ikare road road, but we cannot confirm the main identity of those who were abducted yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immediately, we got wind of it, our men moved to the scene, and they saw a vehicle which belongs to one Jide Ipinsagba. And as at this morning, we don&#8217;t know the remaining occupants that might have been abducted as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we have commenced a search for the victims and we shall rescue them and bring these perpetrators to book,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>SaharaReporters gathered that the camp of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Ondo State has been thrown into confusion over the abduction of the party chieftains.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen have abducted Bisi Ogungbemi, Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in Ondo State. SaharaReporters learnt that Ogungbemi was abducted alongside Jide Ipinsagba, a Senatorial candidate. Ipinsagba is the ADC Senatorial Candidate in Ondo North for the 2019 general election and had left the All Progressives Congress (APC) after he failed to secure the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[4166,1178,1541],"class_list":["post-59626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-gunmen","tag-kidnappers","tag-ondo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}