Falae: Abductors demand N100m ransom

Suspected kidnappers Monday stormed Ilu-Abo in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State and kidnapped former presidential candidate of Alliance for Democracy (AD) and All Peoples Party (APP) in 1999 elections, Chief Olu Falae.

The abduction of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), who is the traditional ruler of Ilu-Abo, is the latest in the series of high profile kidnappings that have taken place in the state in recent time. Mother of Jimoh Ibrahim and Chief Olusola Oke have been abducted in the state in recent time.
But the kidnap of Chief Falae, who is the Chairman of Social Democratic Party (SDP), has shaken the state as it is coming barely two years after he lost his son, Deji in the Associated Airlines plane crash in Lagos.
A close family source, who disclosed this to reporters, said Falae was in his farm in Ilu-Abo a suburb of Akure, the state capital, when some suspected herdsmen stormed the farm and took him to an undisclosed destination.
According to him, the Fulani herdsmen and the septuagenarian politician had been having dispute over the destruction of his farm produce by the cows being reared by the herdsmen.
On several occasions, the family source said Falae had invited the Police to intervene in the matter while some of the herdsmen had been arrested and released on bail.
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