Abducted State House of Assembly candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Owan West Constituency, Mike Ohio-Ezomo, has been released after 38 days in captivity.
Ohio-Ezomo was abducted on January 23; at his Sabongida Ora residence by gunmen after his police orderly was killed.
Family sources said he was released last Saturday night at a village near Owo in Ondo State after payment of ransom.
The State Deputy Governor, Comrade Phillip Shaibu, had dropped a hint about his release last Saturday afternoon at a meeting with the APC leaders from Edo North, where he assured them that Ezomo would be released before Saturday, March 9, for the House of Assembly polls.
