- Plannimg To Remove 4 Others
As controversy continues to fester over the sack of Senator Elisha Abbo by the Court of Appeal, he has alleged that Senate President Godswill Akpabio plotted his removal through the Court judgment for not supporting his Senate Presidency ambition.
Abbo made this allegation at his residence in Abuja on Monday, hours after the Court of Appeal nullified his senatorial election.
The Controversial politician from Adamawa State claimed that Akpabio also has plans to remove former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and four other senators for the same reasons.
Abbo described the judgment sacking him as a coup against democracy but urged his supporters to remain calm.
The senator insisted that despite the court declaring Amos Yohanna of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the winner of the February election, he won the exercise.
According to him, he defeated the PDP candidate with a margin of 11,000 votes.
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, earlier yesterday, sacked Abbo from his seat as Senator from Adamawa State.
The appellate court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of Justices, vacated the tribunal judgement that earlier affirmed Abbo of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the valid winner of the Senatorial seat.
It held that there was merit in an appeal that was lodged by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the election, Amos Yohanna.
Senator Abbo, whose re-election bid was dashed by the appellate court’s verdict, entered the news for the wrong reason in 2019 after he assaulted a lady, Ms. Osimibibra Warmate, in a sex toy shop in Abuja.
The lady sued him for physical assault, and a High Court of Federal Capital Territory ordered the lawmaker to pay N50 million in damages to the lady.
Abbo, not satisfied by the judgment of the lower court, appealed the judgment but eventually lost at the appellate court in a decision that was subsequently affirmed by the panel led by Justice Jamilu Tukur.
Meanwhile, Senate President Akpabio has distanced himself from Abbo’s political travail and being behind his removal from the Red Chamber.
Mr. Eseme Eyiboh, the media aide to the Senate President, said his principal had no hand in the court judgement, which sacked Abbo from the Senate.
Eyiboh said: “It is unfortunate if he actually said that Akpabio was responsible for his removal.
That’s the swan song of a man looking for scapegoats.
