{"id":1087,"date":"2023-11-08T15:02:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/abramovich-wanted-to-send-people-after-my-dads-kidnappers-mikel-obi-reveals\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:02:15","slug":"abramovich-wanted-to-send-people-after-my-dads-kidnappers-mikel-obi-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/abramovich-wanted-to-send-people-after-my-dads-kidnappers-mikel-obi-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Abramovich wanted to send people after my dad\u2019s kidnappers \u2013 Mikel Obi reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi, has revealed that former Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, wanted to help save his father from kidnappers in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mikel Obi, Abramovich offered to send people to Nigeria, to help free his dad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dad got kidnapped while I was playing at the World Cup 2018 in Russia, Chelsea were very supportive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember Roman Abramovich saying, do you want me to send people over? Because I know if I send people over, I can get your dad out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, how are you going to do this? He said don\u2019t worry about that. Just let me, if you want that option, I can do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can relate to Luis Diaz and what he\u2019s going through,\u201d Mikel Obi said on talkSPORT.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Nigerian midfielder played for Chelsea from 2006 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Abramovich wanted to send people after my dad\u2019s kidnappers \u2013 Mikel Obi reveals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi, has revealed that former Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, wanted to help save his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2091,15,160],"tags":[2093,235,8,2094,311,2095,180,794,1069,296,2092,201,2096],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mikel-obi","category-news","category-sport","tag-abramovich","tag-after","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-dads","tag-kidnappers","tag-mikel","tag-news","tag-obi","tag-people","tag-reveals","tag-send","tag-sport","tag-wanted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}