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Sacked Senator Abbo Names Lawmaker Behind His Travails

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October 16, 2023

Senator Elisha Abbo has accused the Senate President of the 10th assembly, Godswill Akpabio of being responsible for his travails.

Earlier today, Abbo who represented Adamawa North Senatorial District was sacked by an Appeal Court sitting in Abuja. The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate was subsequently removed from office.

In a press conference on Monday, Abbo mentioned that Senator Orji Uzor Kalu of the APC from Abia North is the next target of the Senate President who will be removed from the Red Chamber.

His statement reads in part: “I have it from a reliable source that myself and four other senators within the fold of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will be removed from the Senate through rulings from the courts, all because of working against the emergence of Akpabio as President of the 10th Senate.

“I won’t mention the names of all the four other ones targeted but the next in line is Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.”

Though Abbo was declared the winner of the February 25 National Assembly election in the senatorial district by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), however, the court ordered that certificate of return should be given to Amos Yohanna of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Yohanna who had earlier rejected the ruling of the tribunal that dismissed his case over lack of merit had through his counsel, Johnson Usman (SAN), approached the court of appeal.

Following the hearing of the argument, the court agreed with Yohanna that the election did not follow Section 137 of the Electoral Act 2022.

The court deducted the invalid votes from both the PDP and APC and found that Yohanna won the majority of the lawful votes.

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