{"id":14801,"date":"2019-08-30T13:45:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=14801"},"modified":"2019-08-30T13:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:45:31","slug":"gunmen-kidnap-action-alliance-national-chairman-udeze-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-action-alliance-national-chairman-udeze-in-abuja","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kidnap Action Alliance National Chairman, Udeze in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Udeze, the National Chairman of the Action Alliance, AA, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Udeze was said to have been kidnapped Friday morning outside a Zenith Bank branch in Dutsen Alhaji, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Genevieve Udeze, the wife of the AA chairman, told reporters that her husband woke up Friday morning and found several text messages indicating heavy withdrawals from his accounts that were not authorized.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cAfter suspecting his account had been hacked, he rushed to the bank to find out what happened. He was with his driver when he was kidnapped outside the Zenith Bank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The politician\u2019s wife further explained that the kidnappers took her husband away in a black SUV, adding that, \u201cshe was on her way to the police station to report the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Udeze, the National Chairman of the Action Alliance, AA, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Abuja. Udeze was said to have been kidnapped Friday morning outside a Zenith Bank branch in Dutsen Alhaji, Abuja. Genevieve Udeze, the wife of the AA chairman, told reporters that her husband woke up Friday morning and found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[664,347,190,548],"class_list":["post-14801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-abduction","tag-abuja","tag-gunmen","tag-nigerian-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gunmen kidnap Action Alliance National Chairman, Udeze in Abuja - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-action-alliance-national-chairman-udeze-in-abuja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gunmen kidnap Action Alliance National Chairman, Udeze in Abuja\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kenneth Udeze, the National Chairman of the Action Alliance, AA, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Abuja. 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