Gunmen on Saturday abducted Miss Nancy Keme Dickson, the sister of Bayelsa State’s Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson.
Nancy aged 26, was kidnapped at her shop situated at Okaka Road, Yenagoa, the state capital.
The heavily armed gunmen drove in an ash Lexus SUV after trailing her to her shop and whisked her away to an unknown place at about 2:50pm.
Even the state security outfit Operation Door Akpo, which runs a 24 hour patrol could do nothing to stop the assailants from abducting their victim in broad daylight.
After the incident the Nigeria police Force mounted stop and search operations on vehicles at different parts of the city.
Most residents claimed that the incident was politically motivated.
Dickson, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is facing a fierce reelection battle in the ongoing governorship poll in the state.
Though the governor leads with over 33,000 votes, the rerun poll in Southern Ijaw and about 112 other polling units, which had been fixed for January 9, 2016, makes the contest competitive and tight.
Bayelsa has been under the throes of kidnapping with persons close to governorship candidates abducted.
The cousin to the Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), chief Timipre Sylva; the centenarian mother of his running mate, Chief Wilberforce Igiri and the wife of an APC chieftain and former acting Governor, Nestor Binabo, were among persons abducted before the poll.
