Some yet-to-be-identified armed men on Tuesday morning kidnapped Chukwudi Ogbonna, the Accord Party candidate for the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly. This is coming barely four days to the State House of Assembly which is fixed for the March 18 election. It was learned that Mr Ogbonna was abducted while driving in his car at Rumuigbo, near Port Harcourt on Monday night when the gunmen forced him to stop and whisked him away with his car.
March 14, 2023Some yet-to-be-identified armed men on Tuesday morning kidnapped Chukwudi Ogbonna, the Accord Party candidate for the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly.
It was learned that Mr Ogbonna was abducted while driving in his car at Rumuigbo, near Port Harcourt on Monday night when the gunmen forced him to stop and whisked him away with his car. Meanwhile, during the build-up to the 2023 general elections, the Nigerian security agencies had expressed concern about likely violence in Rivers and other places where offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission were attacked by hoodlums.
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