Former Super Eagles star Christian Obodo has regained his freedom after he escaped his kidnappers today.
Former Fiorentina midfielder Obodo, 36, was Sunday abducted by unknown gunmen in the southern Nigeria town of Warri.
Police spokesman Onome Onowakpoyeya confirmed the incident.
Obodo himself narrated his ordeal.
“They pushed my girlfriend out of the car,” Obodo told AFP by phone, adding that a third gunman was in a car behind them.
“I was praying and trying to have a conversation with them asking them what I had done.
“But they barked at me and told me to shut up, if I made any noise I would be killed.”
Obodo revealed his captors circled the city for several hours until he was asked to stop the car and get out to talk to their accomplice in the car behind.
That was when he took a chance.
“I looked behind and, feeling a little space, I drove off at full speed,” he recounted.
He was also kidnapped eight years ago and it needed the intervention of the police for him to regain his freedom.
