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The Oyo State Police Command has confirmed the kidnapping of the 2025 President of Junior Chamber International (JCI) Ibadan Elite, Mrs Ibukun Otesile.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Adewale Osifeso, who confirmed the development, said the victim was kidnapped on Thursday evening in front of her home in the General Gas area of Akobo, Ibadan, Oyo the state capital

“She was kidnapped on Thursday night. Investigation is ongoing,” the PPRO said.

Otesile, a mother of two, is the daughter of Olalekan Babatunde, founder and General Overseer of Jesus Is King Ministries in Ibadan.

News of her abduction quickly spread across social media platforms on Friday.

Confirming the incident to journalists on Friday, Olamide Olanrewaju, Personal Assistant to Apostle Joshua Sola Akinyemiju, the outgoing Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Oyo State, said the association received the alert at about 8:45 p.m. on Thursday.

“We all have a WhatsApp group, which her father is also a member of. So the CAN chairman posted it as a distress call, saying that the daughter of Reverend (Dr.) Lekan Babatunde had been kidnapped.

“Everyone in the group became worried and started saying, ‘Prayer, prayer, prayer.’ Religious leaders and everyone else were praying. I said prayer is good, but we also need to do the right thing.

“On the same group, I tagged Rev Moses, the Chaplain of the Police Force Headquarters in Oyo State, before putting out the alert.

“I learned she was kidnapped at the gate in front of her house at General Gas. Only God knows what she was doing there, where she went, or who she was with,” Olanrewaju said.

The distress alert later shared by CAN read: “The daughter of our beloved Reverend Dr. Lekan Babatunde was kidnapped this night, Thursday, December 4, around 8:00 p.m. Ibukun Otesile, the mother of two, was kidnapped in front of her gate at General Gas, Akobo.”

Meanwhile, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has appealed to security agencies for urgent intervention, calling on the Nigerian Army Headquarters and the Nigeria Police Force to deploy all necessary resources to secure Otesile’s immediate release.

EyeCumInPeace:
No worries.
She will soon be released after millions of Naira ransom have changed hands.

Kidnapping remains the most thriving and lucrative business in Nigeria.

Dogalmighty17:
Somebody was kidnapped in front of her house and people are asking what she's doing there?

yesloaded:
Akobo? How come? General Gas is just a stone thrown to Kolapo ishola

It's very disturbing that someone can be easily kidnapped around this area

anonimi:
The eyesore on Bourdillon Road
2nd January 2025

Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.

If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.

That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.

https://punchng.com/the-eyesore-on-bourdillon-road/

greatiyk4u:
Just imagine the audacity of these kidnappers

It's now obvious no one is exempted as we are all potential victims

NIGERIA has happened to her abi make I say it has favored her and the family.

Nigeria can only get better when we have a president that enjoys goodwill from the masses not those that impose themselves on the people

Maxymilliano:
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him.
According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.

Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.

At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.

https://thenationonlineng.net/why-i-delegated-el-rufai-ayade-others-to-answer-questions-at-chatham-house-tinubu/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1670262252

MEGAWATCH:
South West is finished, it's as simple as that.

What kind of president is this that your people will be disappearing like it's magic?

One day, Oba of Lagos may just disappear like that and we will now see him eating beans in Kwara with bandits o!


Tinubu Tinubu Tinubu!!!


How many times did i call you?


😛😛😛😛😛

Dogalmighty17:
“I learned she was kidnapped at the gate in front of her house at General Gas. Only God knows what she was doing there, where she went, or who she was with,” Olanrewaju said


Somebody was kidnapped in front of her house and this man is asking what she's doing there? Is this man okay?

iwaeda:
May God help us that she will be released unscratched. This is just 2025, if you like retain APC in 2027, it will favour me and my family is my only prayer for you.

Wickedtruths:
In 2005, a sitting Governor was kidnapped in Anambra. They caught him live like a catfish.

Yesterday, they killed a Pastor's wife and burnt his church in Anambra.

In Imo, there is killing competition every other day.

In Enugu, herdsmen have taken over the rural areas and the other parts are shares between Emma Powerful, Gentle the Yahoo and Kanu's manhood.

But SW where you run to for refuge is your problem.

Maxymilliano:
https://leadership.ng/police-confirm-kidnap-of-pastors-daughter-in-oyo/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawOg6bNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeeAzff_J757Z2VpmFP40s3y97EK9v8PxiQpjDgXeg6Y7GIMNS1uIzTCkuijM_aem_b7mbM8-YFZLltpYnwFD_Yw

Igbek76:
U

Shut up! Which APC is your Dullard talking about?
People like you allow criminal lazy politicians who cannot get power legitimately to use insecurity as a tool or means of a getting it by blackmailing incubents.
APC is going nowhere.

Christlike01:
I learned she was kidnapped at the gate in front of her house at General Gas. Only God knows what she was doing there, where she went, or who she was with,” Olanrewaju said

What a question — what she was doing in front of her own house?! I don't think this Mr Olanrewaju is alright,I'm sorry!