Missing Factional Kaduna APC Chairman Resurfaces

Says he was abducted at gun point

John Shiklam went straight to the police headquarters in Kaduna to report the incident.

“We have been to the police headquarters together and he has narrated his ordeal to the police, I was there and I can tell you everything,” Shinko said in a telephone interview.

According to him, “After the prayers, at about 6a.m. as Wada was heading back home, he was approached by somebody wearing a white agbada.

“The man saluted him in accordance with the usual Hausa culture. Suddenly the man removed a pistol from his side pocket and pointed to his chest and ordered him into a waiting vehicle - a Sienna.

“There were about six people waiting in the car. They put him at the back seat, sandwiched by two of his abductors.

“After the car moved some metres away, he sighted about three rifles in the booths of the car.

“One of his abductors asked him why he was looking back? The leader of the gang ordered that his eyes be blindfolded,” Shinko said.

Quoting Wada’s statement to the police, Shinko, said the abductors of the factional party chairman drove about two to three hours, “but he could not say whether they were driving within or outside Kaduna city.”

According to Shinko, Wada was taken to a compound with his eyes still blindfolded.

“They kept him for sometime and when it was around 1p.m., they asked him whether he would pray after they had performed their prayers. It was then that it dawned on him that his abductors were all Muslims.

“At about 1a.m. on Sunday, they fired about four gunshots in the air, then they brought plain papers to him and asked him to sign his signature.

“He said at that time they had removed the blindfold on his eyes, but because he was blindfolded for too long, he couldn’t see clearly .

“He told them that he cannot append his signature on any plain paper. He told them to write something and he will sign it for them.

“When he insisted that he will not sign a plain paper, they went out and in the process of their conversation he overheard some of them saying that after all what they are doing, Mr. X (name withheld) may not even recognise their efforts.

“When they came back to meet him, they told him that they had written something and asked him to sign.

“At the end of the day they force him to sign three documents.”

Shinko said they had wanted him to denounce his ‘chairmanship’ (factional) of the APC in Kaduna. They said he should sign that he has withdrawn his membership of the APC and that he is no longer interested in politics.

“They said if he cannot sign, he should allow them to record his voice, telling the world that he has resign from being the ‘acting state chairman’ of the APC Kaduna for peace to reign.

“So he refused to allow them record his voice. But they took his signature. We have told the police that whoever presents his signature anywhere, that person should be considered as the prime suspect.