UPDATED: how Bayo Adelabu, ex-Minister’s sister was kidnapped in Oyo
Former Minister of Power, Bayo Adelabu, is touched with red-hot knife of insecurity. Although not him, his sister wask kidnapped yesterday.
Olaide Busayo Adegoke John-Paul, 43, was kidnapped at the Challenge area of Ibadan South West Local Government Area in Oyo state. She was taking her twin sons – Peter and Paul – to school so the kidnappers also took and fled with the three.
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“Mrs. Olaide Busayo Adegoke John-Paul, aged 43, was reportedly abducted by armed gunmen at about 7:30 a.m. while on her way to drop her children at school in Ibadan,” Adelabu’s media aide confirmed in a statement.
This is happening days after gunmen abducted dozens of schoolchildren in their schools.
But Bayo Adelabu’s sister’s is the latest high-profile abduction in Oyo as new waves of insecurity is sweeping the southwestern state. Mrs John-Paul voluntarily resigned from Central Bank of Nigeria last year, and then relocated to Ibadan. According to the statement, she was planning to join her husband in America with her 12-year-old twins.
In December 2025 Wale Oriade, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was kidnapped right in the heart of Ibadan metropolis.
For years the question of insecurity has retained prime place in public discourse in Nigeria. But the recent happenings in Oyo State looks like there is a complete breakdown of security architecture in the Yoruba heartland.
Bayo Adelabu is a frontline APC governorship aspirant for 2027 elections.