Ekpe Ogbu, the abducted Benue State Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, alongside three others abducted on Sunday, have been released.
It was gathered that the victims were released around 3.30pm on Tuesday, after three days in captivity.
One of the commissioner’s political associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they were dropped along Otukpo/Ado Road.
The state Commissioner of Police, Wale Abass, who confirmed the release of the commissioner and others, said no ransom was paid.
Ogbu, alongside his driver, aide and one other, was abducted on Sunday while coming from a burial.
