Lagos PDP Chairman, kidnapped, abductors demand N200m

News Express |26th Jan 2024 | 435

Abducted Lagos PDP Chairman, Philip Aivoji

Chairman, Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Philip Aivoji, has been kidnapped.

Tribune Online learnt that the abductors have demanded N200 million ransom.

The party chieftain was said to have been kidnapped on Thursday, January 25, at Ogere area along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway around 6pm, while coming back to Lagos from the PDP South-West Zonal meeting held in Ibadan.

It was further learnt that another member of the Lagos State PDP Exco, who was said to have escaped from being kidnapped, is currently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital. (Nigerian Tribune)

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