Oke’s mother released

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Yoruba elders, under the aegis of Yoruba Unity Forum, on Thursday frowned on the killings of Yoruba by northern groups. The group lamented that several sons and daughters of Yoruba origin had lost their lives to what it described as senseless killings in some parts of the northern states, declaring that an end must be put to such trend. The elders gave the hint at the general meeting of YUF under the chairmanship of the wife of late sage Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Mrs.

THE 83-year-old mother of the National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP Chief Olusola Oke, Madam Mariam Oke, has been released by her abductors after 11 days.

Oke told journalists on Thursday that his octogenarian mother was released in a riverside community in Warri, Delta State at about 3.30pm on Wednesday.

But the police authorities in the state could not confirm the release of the old woman as at the time of filling in this report.

Oke explained that the kidnappers dropped their victim at a jetty in Warri and called members of the family on the telephone to pick the octogenarian up from the jetty.

Madam Oke was kidnapped by five gunmen at his son’s residence in Igbokoda, Ilaje Local Government area of the Ondo State.

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Oke’s mother released