Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
About a week after Chief Cassidy Ikegbidi,the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ahoada East local Government council of Rivers State was abducted by yet to be identified gunmen on Saturday April 18, there has not been any contact with the family and neither has there been any ransom claim.
The police also have not had any clue about where Ikegbidi was being kept.
Ikegbidi is an ardent loyalist of Governor Chibuike Amaechi and a leading light of All Progressives Congress, APC,in the state.
He was once an elected council chairman of Ahoada East local Government council. But when his tenure expired, he was among the a few selected Council Chairmen who was appointed as a Caretaker Committee Chairman of the same council.
Cassidy Ikegbidi,a High Chief in Ekpeyeland, was leader and vocal Spokesman for APC members who protested to the INEC headquarters in Abuja to demand the transfer of Mrs Gesila Khan, the Rivers INEC Resident Electoral Commission, REC,who was accused of being a compromised umpire and tool in the hands of the Peoples Democratic Party.