Fourty-eight hours after Pastor Seyi Adekunle, Pastor of the Winners Church, Airport branch, Calabar, was kidnapped in church, his abductors are demanding for N80 million ransom.
The kidnappers, according to a source in the church, made a phone call with the pastor’s phone at about 9p.m., Monday, to one of the pastors in the church, demanding N80 million naira before the pastor would be released.
The source said: “The people used Pastor Seyi’s phone to speak with one of our pastors at about 9p.m. on Monday and allowed the victim to speak to assure us that he was alive before one of them said if we want our pastor back, we should give them N80 million.”
The source, who said they had been instructed not to talk to the press, added that no amount had been offered to the captors as the phone call was very brief.
He said meetings were going on at the top hierarchy of the church in Calabar to know what next to do.
Meanwhile, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, in Cross River State has warned those who abducted the pastor that they would be incurring the wrath of God on themselves with their action.
The warning, which came Monday morning in a statement by PFN Chairman, Pastor Lawrence Ekwok, and General Secretary, Apostle Frank Umo, demanded the immediate release of Pastor Adekunle.
The statement said: “The wrath of God is upon you for that act, this is more so as the pastor was kidnapped at the time he and others were praying and seeking the face of God for the good of the people of the state and country at large.”
According to PFN, the action of the kidnappers is repulsive and devilish.
Ekwok warned that any attempt by any group of people to want to make blood money by kidnapping servants of God was highly condemnable and a grievous sin which attracts the wrath of God.
They called on the Nigerian Police and other security agencies to work round the clock to ensure the immediate release of Pastor Adekunle.
