Plateau PDP Chairman abducted

The Plateau State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Damishi Sango, who was a former Minister of Sports, has been kidnapped.
The spokesman of the Plateau State Police Command, Terna Tyopev, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Jos.
Tyopeve said Sango was abducted alongside four others around Jere-Garkawa Road in Kaduna State.
Tyopev said: “They were on their way from Jos to Abuja on Wednesday evening when the kidnappers abducted them.”
He said the Plateau State Police Command had reached out to the Kaduna State Police Command on the matter.
He said: “The spokesman of the Kaduna Police Command has told me that the Commissioner there has ordered his men to comb everywhere to rescue them.”
He said the Plateau State Police Command was working in synergy with the Kaduna office to rescue the victims and possibly arrest those behind the incident.
Tyopev urged members of the public with any useful information to contact the Kaduna or Plateau formation.
A family member, Jonathan Mapis, who spoke on the issue, said the victims were abducted “around 5.30pm”.
Mapis said: “Sango and his entourage were on their way to Abuja for the Saturday PDP National Convention when the abductees got them.
“He left home around 4pm for Abuja, but at about 6pm, when someone called one of the persons Sango traveled with, a policemen picked the call and told him (caller) that they found the phone in a vehicle abandoned on the road.
“Apparently, the kidnappers took them to an unknown destination and left the vehicle just by the road side.”
Mapis, however, said no one had contacted the family so far.
He said: “We are actually anxious for their (kidnappers) call.
“We want to know if they (abductees) are alive and in good condition.
“We are just so worried and confused.”
Mapis urged security agencies to intensify efforts to ascertain the fate of the victims and rescue them.
The PDP Deputy Chairman in Plateau State, Amos Gombi, who also confirmed the incident, said Sango and his team were abducted on their way to Abuja.
Gombi added: “We have not heard anything since they were abducted.
“All we know is that the vehicle in which they traveled is now at the police station.”