Suspected kidnappers have abducted a cousin of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Engr. Michael Ogiasa.

The ugly development was confirmed in a statement by the spokesman of the Bayelsa Police Command, SP Asinim Butswat.

He said Ogiasa was abducted from his community, Otuabagi, in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State on Thursday, June 2, adding that efforts were being made to rescue him.

A source said Ogiasa had just finished a meeting in the community when gunmen numbering eight invaded his house just as he arrived from the meeting and whisked him away.

Ogiasa, who was a former cabinet member in the administration of former Bayelsa governor Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, is also the convener of Voice of the South-South, a socio-political group at the forefront of drafting Jonathan into the 2023 Presidency.

Sources said Ogiasa’s family kept the abduction under wraps, believing that the kidnappers would contact the family for a ransom to be paid quietly.

However close to 48 hours after his kidnap and no word from his abductors the family had to report the incident to the Police for investigation and possibly his rescue.

“He had actually planned to return to Yenagoa at the end of the meeting but some people prevailed on him to wait till the next morning. He was indoors when the gunmen arrived and abducted him,” the source added.

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