Former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has been released from Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja.

His release was ordered by Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday following is conviction for alleged mismanagement of N7.65 billion belonging to the state.

He was sentenced to a 12-year jail term last December.

Kalu had filed an application asking the court to order his release from the Nigerian Correctional Service, Kuje, Abuja, after his conviction was nullified by the Supreme Court.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Kalu and Ude Jones Udeogu, a former director of finance and account of Abia state on 36 counts of money laundering to the tune of N7.1 billion.