Former
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, has been
kidnapped by gunmen on Monday on his farm at Ilado village in Akure
North Local Government area of Ondo State.
The incident occurred on the day the former presidential candidate of the All Peoples Party, clocked 77.
It was
gathered that the gunmen, numbering 20, invaded the farm at about
12.30pm, beat up the former Minister for Finance and his workers, before
whisking him away in their vehicle and headed towards Forest Reserve.
All effort
to meet Chief Falae’s wife, Rachael, or any member of his family was
unsuccessful at the time of filing this report but the spokesman for the
state Social Democratic Party, Mr. Remi Olayowola, said the abductors
had contacted Mrs. Falae and had demanded a sum of N100million ransom.