Police Arrest Four Suspects Linked To Abduction Of Adelabu’s Sister

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The Oyo State Police Com­mand, on Sunday, con­firmed the arrest of four suspects as well as the kill­ing of two others during a rescue operation involving the sister of the 2027 gov­ernorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state, Bayo Ad­elabu, Busola, and her two children in Ibadan.

Also, firearms, includ­ing a pump-action gun, were recovered during the Saturday night operation, which lasted for several hours at the Ayegun area of Oluyole Local Govern­ment Area of the state.

The abductees were smoked out of a three-bed­room bungalow where they were hibernating.

Conducting journalists round the place in Ibadan, the state capital, on Sunday, the state Commissioner of Police, Oluwagbemi­ga Abimbola, said, “The police acted on a tip-off, which eventually resulted in the rescuing of the vic­tims.”

It was further gathered that there was a shootout during the operation in which two of the suspects were killed in a midnight raid.

Aside from the four sus­pects that were arrested, other suspects escaped with bullet wounds.

Busayo Adegoke John- Paul, the younger sister of Adelabu, and her twin children were abducted by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday in Ibadan.

John-Paul, who is a bi­ological sister to the for­mer minister, Adelabu, was kidnapped alongside her 12-year-old twin sons at Elewura-Challenge in Ibadan South-West Local Government Area of the state.

The abduction was car­ried out by armed attack­ers who were said to have trailed the vehicle con­veying the victims from their home before flag­ging them down at about 7:30 a.m. at the scene of the incident.