Soldiers Abduct Akwa Ibom Governor’s Aide, Rtd Capt. Ekong

Udom, Akwa Ibom Governor

The Senior Special Adviser on Security Matters to Akwa Ibom state government, Capt. Iniobong Ekong (rtd) has been abducted by soldiers.

According to findings the retired army captain was picked up by soldiers from the 6 Division of the Nigerian Army, under the command of Major General Jamil Sarham over a purported petition written by Senator Godswill Akpabio on Friday, eve of Saturday’s election.

Capt. Ekong is being held incommunicado at an unknown location in Port Harcourt.

The COAS has said that the Military had no role to play in the elections.

The family members are apprehensive as they do not know the condition under which he is currently being kept.

The Commissioner for Information, Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Charles Udoh, who confirmed the abduction, said Ekong was picked up at his residence in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

It was gathered that he was taken to Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for interrogation.

The commissioner, who recalled that the military had said it would have no role to play in the elections wondered why it become the duty of the Army to investigate petitions, arrest and detain people.

“When has it become the responsibility of the the Army to arrest and detain people”, he wondered.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Odiko MacDon, when contacted, said the Police was yet to receive such information.

He, however, promised to make necessary contacts and swing into investigations.

Meanwhile, Senator Akpabio had, after voting in his polling unit at Independent Primary School in Essien Udim, Ukana West Ward 2, said as a lawmaker, he would never get himself involved in anything that would bring disrepute to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

In his reaction to the allegations of having hand on the arrest of Captain Ekong, Akpabio, who said that the state PDP-led government was jittery over the elections, denied the allegation.