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Assault Charges: Why Court Freed Senator Elisha Abbo

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Nigeria’s Senator Elisha Abbo has been set free of assault charges slammed on him by the Nigeria Police.

Recall that Senator Abbo was charged to court in 2019 following the release of a video in which he was seen repeatedly slapping a lady.

Emerging reports have revealed that the Magistrate Court sitting in Zuba on the outskirts of the federal capital, Abuja.

The court dismissed the case on the grounds of lacking diligent prosecution by the police.

Magistrate Abdullahi Ilelah upheld a no-case submission filed by Senator Abbo because the police failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the lawmaker indeed assaulted the lady identified as Osimibibra Warmate on May 11, 2019.

During the trial, two witnesses testified against Senator Abbo. The first was the victim Warmate and the second a police officer, ASP Mary Daniel, who investigated the incident.

The court said the police failed to prove beyond doubt that Senator Elisha Abbo committed the assault against Warmate.  While giving her testimony, Warmate said the assault occurred when she visited a friend, Kemi at Pleasure Chest S*x Toy Shop, Banex Plaza, Wuse 2, Abuja on May 11, 2019.

Two men, one of whom was a policeman in uniform, barged into the shop, assaulted them on the orders of Senator Elisha Abbo.

Recall that Abbo had earlier accused Warmate of fouling up the shop’s air conditioning leading to one of the women in his company when he visited vomiting and fainting.

The senator representing Adamawa north senatorial district had apologised to Nigerians, his party the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and women in general for physically assaulting a lady. He made the apology at a press conference at the PDP headquarters in Abuja on July 3, 2019.

Despite issuing a public statement apologising for his conduct, five days later, Senator Abbo pleaded not guilty to assault charges when he was arraigned by the Nigerian police at the Zuba Magistrate Court on July 8.

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