He was reportedly kidnapped outside his farm and later died in their custody.

The lawyer was abducted on March 7 in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

Two days into his abduction, the deceased established contact with his family wherein the kidnappers, established to be ‘herdsmen’, demanded a N30 million ransom.

A family source said during the period, the demand was reviewed downward to N2.5 million. But the ex-guber aspirant was killed by his captors after they allegedly failed to get the sum, having being intercepted by the police while wanting to pick up the ransom.