Kidnapped Anambra State Commissioner for Youth Development, Patrick Mba, and his wife have been released by their abductors after spending a day in captivity.
Daily Intel Newspaper gathered that the commissioner and his wife were freed on Saturday.
The commissioner, alongside his wife, were abducted by gunmen on Friday along the Edo-Kogi Expressway, on their way to Abuja to attend the wedding of Adaora, the daughter of the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, which was held on Saturday.
They were said to be travelling in a commercial Toyota Sienna bus with other passengers.
It was gathered that one of the commissioner’s aides, who was also on the journey with him, was killed in the process.
It is not clear if ransom was paid for their relates.
