Former Nigeria footballer Christian Obodo has reportedly been abducted in the country’s oil-rich Delta state, police said Monday. Obodo was stopped by unknown gunmen on Sunday in the southern city of Warri, police spokesman Onome Onowakpoyeya told AFP.
Onowakpoyeya said: “The police are on some intelligence lead towards his rescue, but no contacts have been made with the abductors”.
One of his friend, who was a regular in the Nigeria team between 2003 and 2008, told AFP that this time Obodo was with his girlfriend in his car when he was abducted.
“They had stopped to buy bananas by the roadside when the gunmen stopped him, forced him out of his car into theirs, and drove off to an unknown destination,” the man who asked to be identified as Chief Big Sam said.
