A group of unknown gunmen has kidnapped the member representing Toungo Constituency in the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Alhaji Adamu Usman.
Usman was said to have been kidnapped by the gunmen who stormed his residence at Kofare Ward of Yola around midnight on Friday.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer of Adamawa Police Command, Othman Abubakar, said the lawmaker was taken away at gunpoint.
Abubakar however said that the police were investigating the incident.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Usman is one of the only two members of the Adamawa State House Assembly who won their re-election to the House for a second term after defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress in the just-concluded general elections.
The incident brings to three the number of kidnapping recorded in the state within six months.
NAN recalls that Alhaji Sani Ribadu, a brother to Malam Nuhu Ribadu, and Wilson Gundiri, a brother to Engineer Markus Gundiri, were kidnapped but later released.
Gindiri was the the Adamawa State Social Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate in the just-concluded general elections.
NAN.