Nigeria, May 18 -- Nelson Adepoyigi, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Ward 5 Chairman in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, who was recently kidnapped in Ifon, has reportedly been killed by his abductors.

The kidnappers, however, freed two individuals who took N5 million and food items to them as ransom in a bid to secure Mr Adepoyigi's release. PREMIUM TIMES reported that the two were initially abducted when they took the ransom to the kidnappers.

The kidnappers had earlier reduced their initial demand for the APC leader's release from N100 million to N5 million. They also demanded food supplies.

After they increased their captives to three with the abduction of the ransom takers, they made a fresh demand of N30 million to se...