The Senatorial Candidate of the Labour Party for the Ebonyi South Senatorial district, Hon. Linus Okorie, has been kidnapped. The former House of Representatives member was reportedly abducted in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital on Sunday.
Earlier SaharaReporters reported that Okorie’s wife, Nkiru, in a video seen by SaharaReporters which was posted on Twitter by Dr Charles Odogwu, on Monday, alleged that her husband had been abducted by Ebube Agu security outfit, which she claimed was working for Umahi.Nkiru said she was out of the country to get a master’s degree but was told he had been kidnapped when she could not reach him on the phone.She said, “I’m here to raise an alarm about what is happening to my husband.
Okorie had responded to the declaration by saying that the governor was “looking for a high-profile scapegoat to take away attention from the many lives being lost to Ebube Agu operatives in the state”.In a statement, Okorie said he was not invited by any security agency to respond to the allegations against him.
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