Gunmen abduct Governorship candidate, kill two aides in Nigeria 

Gunmen dressed in army uniform have whisked away a popular ex-militant leader, High Chief Sobomabo Jackrich, aka, Egberipapa, from his Usokun country home in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State, in southern Nigeria on Monday.

The police, however, confirmed that Egberipapa, the governorship candidate of the National Rescue Movement (NRM) in the 2023 elections in his state, later gave an update saying he was currently with a sister security agency.

Rivers Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP.Grace Iringe-Koko, only said: “He is with some security personnel. That is all I can say for now.”

Sources close to the ex-militant leader said the operation was conducted in a commando style with military vans and army Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) used to cordon off the home of the ex-militant leader.

He said: “men, who drove in army vans, surrounded his house around 3am on Monday and took him away.

”They killed two people and evacuated their corpses”, he said.

Jackrich was popularly known as Egberipapa in the creeks before he embraced the amnesty offered to repentant Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government, DDM checks reveal.

Media aide to the ex-militant leader, Soibibo Sokari confirmed the incident saying two of his loyalists were killed by the armed men.

Sokari said: “Two persons were killed and their bodies carted away along with him. We are still following up the incident to get more details.

“We don’t know exactly who is behind it. But as the details unfold we will let the public know about it.”

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