Appeal Court sacked me over refusal to  support Akpabio’s Senate Presidency election, Orji Kalu next – Abbo 

 

Senator Elisha Abbo has fingered Senate President Godswill Akpabio as the brain behind his sack as the Senator Representing Adamawa North. 

 

Abbo made the disclosure during a press conference at his residence in Abuja on Monday, hours after the Court of Appeal voided his Senate election.

 

The Adamawa senator claimed that Akpabio also has plans to remove the former chief whip of the senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and four other senators for not backing his senate presidency bid. 

 

Abbo described the judgment sacking him as a coup on democracy, calling on his supporters to remain calm despite the ruling.

 

The senator insisted that despite the court declaring the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Amos Yohanna 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.

 

Recall the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, earlier today, sacked Abbo.

 

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 first came to limelight after a 2019 incident when he assaulted a lady, Ms. Osimibibra Warmate, in a sex toy shop in Abuja.

 

Following the incident, a High Court of Federal Capital Territory ordered the lawmaker to pay N50million damages to the lady, a decision that was subsequently affirmed by a panel of the appellate court led by Justice Jamilu Tukur.