Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, have abducted a former Commissioner for Transport in Bayelsa State, Mrs. Marie Ebikake, and a military official in the state.
The abductions took place in two separate incidents.
The assailants reportedly seized Rotimi on his way to Yenagoa, shot the driver of the boat conveying him in the shoulder and stole the engine of the boat.
Ebikake, an indigene of the Brass LGA and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, was reportedly abducted at about 1.30am on Sunday.
Ebikake had resigned as Commissioner for Transport during the campaign for the re-election of Governor Seriake Dickson amidst a political dispute between Dickson and the wife of a former president, Patience Jonathan.
She was reported to have later returned to Dickson’s political camp.
It was gathered that Ebikake was a key member of the contact and reconciliation committee of the state chapter of the PDP set up by the governor.
It was learnt that three days before her abduction, some armed men had invaded her country house in Twon-Brass, in the Brass LGA, and vandalised the palatial residence.
It was further learnt that although she was not at home during the invasion, the armed men destroyed her bullet-proof doors and broke eggs on her vehicles and doors.