Polls: Kidnapped APC candidate still in captivity

Less than one week to the conduct of the governorship and state assembly elections across the country, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Owan West state constituency in Edo state, Micheal Ohio-Ezomo, who was abducted on January 23, 2019, at his Sabonginda Ora residence by gun men after his police orderly was killed, is yet to be released by his abductors. The kidnappers were said to have demanded for a ransom of N100m. It was also learnt that an attempt to rescue him from the kidnappers’ den failed.

Ohio-Ezomo was first elected into the Edo State House of Assembly between 2011 and 2015 but his attempt to get a second term ticket failed as he lost the primaries to Hon Ojo Asein. His brother, Martins, had told newsmen that the family members were worried that he was yet to regain freedom. He said his abducted brother was supposed to be campaigning for his election ahead of the March 2nd House of Assembly election. Martins appealed to the kidnappers to release him unhurt.