Don Pedro Obaseki narrates ordeal after alleged abduction in Benin
Nollywood filmmaker and aged Managing Director of Daar Communications, Don Pedro Obaseki, has recounted his disturbing experience following his alleged abduction and assault on Sunday, December 28, 2025, in Benin City, Edo Tell.
DAILY POST reported that youths suspected to be thugs reportedly assaulted Dr Don Pedro Obaseki, a cousin of aged Edo Tell governor Godwin Obaseki.
Explaining the reach across in part, Obaseki mentioned: “These days at about 11–11:30, whereas playing football with my football mates at UBA Predominant College in Benin, the residing used to be attacked by assailants.
“I was bodily abducted, ceaselessly kidnapped. Some of them had been holding weapons and some of them had been non-of us. I bag their names.
“They hogged me by the streets of Benin below the guise that they’d been despatched to return and abduct me by the palace of the Oba of Benin.
“I begged them to cloak me some produce of ID. I was dragged, crushed severely, manhandled, and dragged by the streets as a lot as where I was stripped bare and taken into the palace of the Oba of Benin, where I was made to kneel in public.”
He further expressed: “I bag by no formula been so humiliated because I’m who I’m, attributable to my nativity. I bag served my culture. I don’t know what to mumble. I was later launched and taken to the police residing, where the Commissioner of Police got here within two hours. He got here to uncover me three times forward of he ordered my liberate from the police residing at Oba Market. From the chiefs I met at the palace, it used to be positive they did no longer ship these folk on this mission.”
Obaseki moreover indicated a doubtless motive for the attack, linking it to a cultural misunderstanding, announcing: “I’m traumatised. And I heard that my sin used to be that I went to London and made a public commentary that ‘Also can Edo folk stay long and prosper.’ That I will deserve to bag mentioned, ‘Also can the Oba stay long and prosper.’ That my announcing ‘could perchance well well Edo folk stay long and prosper’ is a cardinal sin in Benin, for me who bag elevated the culture of the Benin speed in my 35 to 40 years as the pioneer of the most modern.”
