Details of the release were unclear and there was no indication of whether a ransom was paid to free the 82-year-old Kamene Okonjo, whose daughter Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a high-profile minister and ex-World Bank managing director.
“She has been freed,” police spokesman Frank Mba told AFP. “She is in good health.” He declined to provide further details other than to say that she was freed earlier Friday.
The minister’s spokesman issued a statement confirming the release, but also without providing further details.
One local television station reported that the mother had been dropped off from a motorcycle on Friday morning, but the information could not be immediately confirmed.
Kamene Okonjo was abducted Sunday at her home in Delta state in the country’s Niger Delta region, where ransom kidnappings occur regularly.
A gang of gunmen went to the palace in broad daylight in the afternoon.
When Kamene Okonjo, a professor, went outside to offer drinks to labourers carrying out work around the front gate, the gunmen emerged from hiding and seized her.
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