A retired colonel, Rabi’u Yandoto, and his two children on the Gusau-Tsafe Road have been kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be bandits in Zamfara State.
Quest Times gathered that Yandoto was going to his hometown together with his two children on Sunday night when they were ambushed by bandits and taken to the forest.
Yandoto is said to be a close political rival to Senator Kabiru Marafa and has been campaigning against Marafa’s ambition of winning election in 2023.
He is the leader of the Zamfara All Progressive Congress political group called ‘Wake da Shinkafa’ with the sole aim of ensuring that Kabiru Marafa does not win the senatorial seat come 2023.
Efforts made to speak to the spokesperson for the state police command, SP Mohammed Shehu, were unsuccessful as he could not be reached on phone as of the time of filing this report.