Colonel Rabi’u Yandoto (rtd) and his two children had been kidnapped on the Gusau-Tsafe Road in Zamfara State Sunday night.
An local of the area, Mohammed Hassan, revealed that the retired officer and his two children were going to his hometown when they were waylaid by the bandits and taken to the forest.
Hassan said, “the bandits ambushed the retired colonel on Sunday night and kidnapped him along with his two children and two other victims”.
“We heard gunshots and started running into the bush for fear of the bandits but later realised that Colonel Yandoto was their target,” Hassan added.
Yandoto is a close political rival to Senator Kabiru Marafa and has been campaigning against Marafa’s ambition of winning election in 2023.
He is the leader of the Zamfara All Progressive Congress political group called ‘Wake da Shinkafa’ with the sole aim of ensuring that Kabiru Marafa does not win the senatorial seat come 2023.
