The Ogun State Police Command on Monday disclosed that an abducted member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from Lagos State lost her life while other nine members of the party were rescued by its operatives.
The state’s Police Commissioner, CP Abiodun Alamutu, stated this at a news briefing in Abeokuta on Monday.
Alamutu named Mr Phillip Aivoji, Chairman of PDP in Lagos among those freed but regretting, however, that one of the abductees, Bilikisu Kazeem, lost his life during exchange of gunfire between police and the hoodlums.
The PDP members were abducted last Thursday on their way back to Lagos from Ibadan where they had attended a party function.
Alamutu said that the abductees were freed early on January 29 after four days in captivity.
Aivoji and nine others were kidnapped around Ogere axis of Lagos-Ibadan expressway after attending a PDP meeting in Ibadan.
The police commissioner said that he was not aware of any ransom being paid to the hoodlums before the release of the PDP chieftains.
The police had, on Saturday, claimed in a statement issued on behalf of the command by Mr Omolola Odutola, the Public Relations Officer, that its operatives were making concerted efforts to free the kidnapped PDP officials unhurt.
Alamutu commiserated with the family of the 37-year-old Bilikisu Kazeem who died as a result of the bullets wound she sustained during the incident.
