After been incarcerated for several months over allegation of looting over N7.25b belonging to Abia State, former Governor of the state, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has finally regained his freedom.
The Senator walked out of the Kuje Correctional Centre after the completion of his release formalities and subsequent release by the Nigerian Correctional Service.
He was released around 7:30 pm.
Recall that Justice Mohammad Liman of the Federal High Court in Lagos ordered the release of Kalu on Tuesday following his conviction last December.
He set aside the trial, conviction, and sentence of the former governor to 12 years imprisonment on December 5, 2019 by a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos.
Kalu, a two-term former governor of Abia State, had urged the court to set aside his conviction on December 5, 2019, by Justice Mohammed Idris.
He explained that this became necessary since the Supreme Court, in its verdict delivered on May 8, 2020, held that Justice Idris gave the judgment without jurisdiction.
