Cassidy Ikegbudu, Ahoada East LG Chairman, Abducted In Rivers State

Rivers state police command have confirmed the abduction of Cassidy Ikegbudu, chairman of the caretaker committee of the Ahoada East local government area of the state.


Briefing the press in Port Harcourt, deputy superintendent and public relations officer in the state Ahmad Muhammad said Ikegbudu was abducted in the early hours of Saturday, April 18.

“Action has been put in place to rescue him safely,” Muhammad said.

According to Eric Apia, the APC House of Assembly candidate for Ahoada East Constituency 1, Ikegbudu has been kidnapped from his village, Yiboko, by armed men.

“Reports received from his family said there was exchange of fire between security personnel attached to the chairman and the armed men. The armed men later took the chairman away, dragged him to a nearby river and went away in a speedboat,” Apia said.

Ahoada East is one of the four local government areas where House of Assembly elections were rescheduled to hold  on the 18th of April, after the election of April 11 was declared inconclusive by the INEC