Abbo blames Akpabio over removal from senate, says four other members next in target

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Senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, Elisha Abbo has said the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio is responsible for his recent removal from office by the appellate court.

Abbo made the allegations while speaking to journalists at his residence in Abuja on Monday after he learned about his sacking from office by the law court.

Senator Abbo’s victory at the 2023 senatorial poll was on Monday reportedly nullified by the Court of Appeal which sat in Abuja.

According to reports, the Appeal Court in it’s judgement, held that the arguments contained in the petition filled by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Amos Yohanna, were valid and therefore, declared the PDP candidate as winner of the February 25 senatorial election.

Yohanna had in a petition filed at the tribunal sitting in Yola, challenged the declaration of Abbo, who contested on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC as the winner of the poll.

The PDP senatorial candidate argued that Abbo did not score the majority of lawful votes cast adding that the poll was marred by irregularities, such as false entries, alteration, and cancellation of votes at several polling units, among others.

Meanwhile, the APC candidate, Abbo has also said that the Senate President did not just have a hand in the unfavourable court judgment against him but also alleged that Akpabio had penciled down four other senators for removal through the court.

He said this was a deliberate act against the selected lawmakers who are have been elected under the aegis of the People’s Democratic Party.

Abbo said, “I have it from a reliable source and a very highly placed one for that matter, that myself and four other senators within the fold of the ruling All Progressives Congress would be removed from the Senate through rulings from the courts, all because of working against 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,” Abbo claimed.

Faulting the court judgment, Abbo insisted that there was no way the PDP candidate could have defeated him at the poll. He said he was so popular that his margin of victory against the PDP candidate was 11,000 votes.

“The court judgment is strange and the judiciary needs to please remain the last hope of the common man.

“For President Bola Tinubu, I must declare that this is not the democracy he fought for and should please lead in protecting it,” he added.

He, however, appealed to his supporters to remain calm, vowing that he would be back in the Senate in 2027.

The Court of Appeal is the final court for the determination of disputes arising from senatorial election cases unlike that of presidential and gubernatorial electoral cases which any party who is not satisfied with the judgement of the court can further proceed to appeal the judgement at the supreme court which is the nation’s apex judicial institution.

A supreme Court’s judgement cannot be appealed.