{"id":64654,"date":"2025-04-23T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64654"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:22:11","slug":"kidnappers-kill-apc-national-director-after-collecting-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/23\/kidnappers-kill-apc-national-director-after-collecting-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappers Kill APC National Director After Collecting Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Esther Chidera<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tension and grief have gripped the Federal Capital Territory following the murder of Dr Kunle Adenijis, a National Director of the All Progressives Congress (APC), by kidnappers who killed him after collecting a ransom from his family.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Adenijis was abducted in February while heading to his brother\u2019s home in the Chikakore area of Kubwa, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Armed gunmen attacked, taking him, his brother, and his brother\u2019s wife, Esther, who was shot and later dumped in a remote area in Niger State.<\/p>\n<p>The abductors initially demanded three hundred and fifty million naira. Despite fifty million naira being paid by the family, the kidnappers failed to honour the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they killed Dr Adenijis, whose lifeless body was later discovered, sending shockwaves across the political and public spheres.<\/p>\n<p>His brother and son, also taken during the attack, were eventually released alive.<\/p>\n<p>The brutal killing of the senior APC official has sparked outrage, with many questioning the effectiveness of Nigeria\u2019s security architecture and the growing boldness of criminal gangs across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Esther Chidera Tension and grief have gripped the Federal Capital Territory following the murder of Dr Kunle Adenijis, a National Director of the All Progressives Congress (APC), by kidnappers who killed him after collecting a ransom from his family. Dr Adenijis was abducted in February while heading to his brother\u2019s home in the Chikakore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64656,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64654\/revisions\/64656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}