{"id":91870,"date":"2023-07-08T22:20:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/gunmen-kidnap-ekiti-apc-chairman-omotosho"},"modified":"2023-07-09T00:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T23:38:30","slug":"gunmen-kidnap-ekiti-apc-chairman-omotosho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gunmen-kidnap-ekiti-apc-chairman-omotosho","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kidnap Ekiti APC chairman, Omotosho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Ekiti State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Paul Omotosho has been kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that Omotosho was kidnapped along the Agbado-Imesi-Ekiti road in Gbonyin Local Government Area of the state, Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>A close source, who confirmed the development , stated that Omotosho, who is from Imesi-Ekiti, was on his way to his hometown when the gunmen ambushed his vehicle with sporadic gunshots before taking him to the bush.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, the state APC Publicity Secretary, Segun Dipe,said, \u201d Yes, our chairman has been kidnapped this evening, and we are already working with security agencies towards securing his release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Ekiti State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Paul Omotosho has been kidnapped. It was gathered that Omotosho was kidnapped along the Agbado-Imesi-Ekiti road in Gbonyin Local Government Area of the state, Saturday evening. A close source, who confirmed the development , stated that Omotosho, who is from Imesi-Ekiti, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":91869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,34,1578,308,190,254,7646],"class_list":["post-91870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-breaking","tag-ekiti","tag-gunmen","tag-nigeria","tag-omotosho"],"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 Ekiti APC chairman, Omotosho - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ekiti State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Paul Omotosho has been kidnapped. 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