Chelsea star Obi Mikel’s father abducted in Nigeria

“I’ve told some of my team mates today but most of them didn’t know on Sunday. I didn’t want everyone coming up to me saying ‘oh sorry Mikel’, I just wanted to get on with the game.”

Chelsea’s young player of the year in 2007 said everyone back home knows he is a professional footballer.

Mikel said he would like to return to Nigeria but had been advised on safety and security grounds to remain in England.

Earlier, his management company The Sport Entertainment & Media Group said no ransom demand had yet been received from the kidnappers.

It is not the first time a relative of a Premier League player has been abducted in Nigeria after former Everton defender Joseph Yobo’s brother was kidnapped in 2008.

Source: Agencies

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