The senatorial candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the Southern District of Ebonyi State, Linus Okorie, has been abducted by gunmen.
The former House of Representatives member was on his way to his house in Abakaliki on Sunday morning, when gunmen allegedly double-crossed his vehicle and took him hostage.
The police were yet to react to the incident, but the attack received total condemnation from the public.
His wife, Lilian, made a short video on Facebook on Sunday, begging the abductors of her husband to release him unharmed.
But a statement by Dr David Ogbonna, spokesman of the politician’s campaign outfit, Caring Heart, said available information confirmed that he had been severely tortured to a near-death situation, made naked and pictures of him taken by his abductors.