A National Conscience Party candidate for Bayelsa State House of Assembly election in 2015, Mr.

, has been abducted.

Agbalaze was whisked away from his residence at Azikoro Village Area of Bayelsa in the early hours of Monday by gunmen allegedly adorning police camouflage.

It was learnt that when his assailants called, they took him away along with one of his aides, identified only as Monday.

Agbalaze, a former Tarakiri Rural Development Area Chairman, is one of the foremost contenders for the Assembly seat in Sagbama Constituency 1 where the current House Majority Leader, Mr. Peter Akpe, is contesting.

Agbalaze’s friend, Mr. Oyakemeagbeagha Kpoku, alias General Oyas, told Punch Metro on Tuesday that the victim was forcibly taken away by people in police camouflage around 3am on Monday.

Oyas claimed Agbalaze’s assailants came in three vehicles and bundled him into one of the vehicles with his aide.

Oyas, a former Niger Delta militant, urged Agbalaze’s captors to bring him unhurt, warning that hell will be let loose in the constituency if they refused to release him to enable him to campaign for the election.

He vowed that if Agbalaze’s abductors failed to release him before the election, no election would be held in Sagbama Constituency 1.

The abduction of the Assembly candidate has been generating tension in Governor Seriake Dickson constituency as sources said it was politically motivated.

A source, who craved anonymity, alleged that the abduction was an intimidation to make him stop his campaign to go to the House.

The source said Agbalaze is more popular among the candidates in the area, noting that his current travail was just to make him chicken out of the contest.

Efforts to get police position on the abduction were not successful as Public Relations Officer, Bayelsa Police Command, Mr. Asinim Butswat, failed to pick several calls made to his mobile phone.