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The fifty members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Nasarawa State and other INEC ad hoc staff held hostage by villagers in Assakio, Adogi and Shige, Lafia Local Government were on Sunday freed from their abductors.
One of the victims, Mr. Adamu Anzalu told reporters in Lafia, the state capital, that he and others were picked up by security operatives on Shendam Road, close to Assakio where they were held captive.
He said they were held hostage because the collation and returning officers absconded and the villagers insisted that unless the officers arrived, they would not release them.
Anzalu said: “I have to persuade the villagers that the results would not be altered before we were released 20 hours after”.