A Photo Journalist identified as Owolabi Olumuyiwa Tayo has alleged that he was once a victim of embattled Senator Elisha Cliff Ishiaku Abbo.
Owolabi Olumuyiwa Tayo
According to Owolabi who reached out to www.theoctopusnews.com following a viral video in which Senator Abbo was seen assaulting a young lady, the incident isn’t a new thing to him.
Owolabi, revealed the same treatment was meted out to him by the Senator six years ago precisely on October 14, 2014 after former Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose was sworn into office.
Detailing how he me Senator Cliff Abbo, Owolabi said “I met him during the electioneering campaign of Former Gov. Of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose. I later became head of his media team in July 2014.
“I had a contract of #2.8million Naira with him, to work as a media personnel to him, to cover all his movement for the election and for his campaign as senator, in Mubi North, under ACN in 2014.
“On August 13, 2014, I traveled with him to Yola, Adamawa State, from Abuja by air and we lodged at Lelewa Hotel for weeks while campaigning for the primary election.
“We traveled from Adamawa to Mubi, Vintim Muchala back to Mubi and later to Yola after he lost the Senatorial ticket.
According to Owolabi, trouble started between them when Senator Abbi refused to honour the contract he signed with him.
“In preparation for the inauguration of Former Governor of Ekiti state Gov. Fayose, in October 2014, I decided to come back to Ekiti in other to attend his inauguration being his official Photo Journalist during the campaign. On approaching Sen. Ishiaku of the contract agreement we had together, he refused to pay. Despite so many persuasion in other for him to just give me part of my money, he refused to attend to me. On the faithful day we wanted to travel together to Mubi for the last campaign, but Boko Haram invaded Mubi prior to the day we ought to have travel. Due to the invasion of Boko Haram, I began to plead with him that I needed to leave the state.
“It was around 5pm that I had been waiting for him to attend to me, after series of text messages and calls, in which he refused to attend to me, I was force to go and seat at the doorstep of his room waiting for the time he would come out at Dansoho Hotel in Yola.
“As soon as he came out, I began to plead with him that I have to go, the next thing he said is that I was embarrassing him, he leaped on me and started beating and slapping me. To the extent of telling his orderly to put me inside the pickup. He told them to cock the gun at me that he will kill me and tell people am a member of Boko Haram.
“When I heard that statement I was shocked because I don’t know anybody there and I can’t speak their language fluently. No one could come to my rescue as everybody was just dumbfounded at the way he brutalised me and broke my ankle. I was begging him to just leave me and let me go that I will leave the money for him because of his action.
“That very night at around 2am. I was driven along quiet area telling his orderly that they should shoot me if I dear shout again. On that fateful night, one of his orderly begged that they should take me to Police station.
“I was driven to Kaliwa Police Division at that the dead of the night. He broke my phone, I couldn’t contact anybody he tore my cloth and naked me that very night. On getting to Kaliwa Police Station, I begged the IPO to please let me use his phone to talk to one of my family. That was how I called one of my brother that pleaded with the IPO to assist me out of the situation.
The DPO came the following morning and begged him to give me transport fare to go back to meet my family. Till date, he didn’t pay me the money,” Owolabi to www.theoctopisnews.com.
Pleading with Nigerians to confirm his story, the Photo Journalist urged the Senator to pay up his debt, as he hopes justice will prevail this time.
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