When the plain-clothes policemen sent by El-Rufai from Kaduna finally tracked me down and abducted me in Port Harcourt after several days of surveillance, they had no arrest warrant. They immediately seized my phones, preventing me from making any calls, and instructed the Mini Okoro Police Station, where they detained me not to allow anyone to see or speak to me.
Around 8 p.m., I pleaded with an elderly policewoman who showed compassion; she let me use her phone to call my brother. That single phone call saved my life and prevented the “Dadiyata model” from being applied to me.
The next morning, on May 9, 2019, around 5 a.m., they came to bundle me off to Kaduna. But they were shocked to discover that news of my abduction had already spread across the media. With the publicity, they had no choice but to transport me to Kaduna alive.
A lot happened during my time in prison, that’s a story for another day.
On the circumstances surrounding Dadiyata’s disappearance: He was in Kano on the day he disappeared, having left Dutsenma where he worked in the afternoon, but his abductors were already positioned in Kaduna, waiting for him. According to his family, including his wife whom I interviewed in October 2020, they lured him into driving from Kano to Kaduna in the middle of the night. He arrived in Kaduna around 2 a.m.
If Ganduje was truly behind it, why didn’t they simply abduct him in Kano, where Ganduje was governor at the time? Why go through the trouble of luring him all the way to Kaduna that night?
Upon his arrival in Kaduna, as recounted by his wife, he drove into the compound of their home in Barnawa, where they lived alone. The abductors immediately accosted him, took him away, and drove off in the BMW car he was using that night. That was the last anyone saw of him or the vehicle, he vanished forever.
Call Detail Records (CDR) from that night would likely reveal who he was speaking with, as family members believe the calls lasted for hours and that the callers were the ones who orchestrated his abduction.
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