Abbo said he was being hounded because he opposed the emergence of Akpabio as Senate President in the election conducted last June.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Senator Elisha Abbo (Adamawa North) has accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of being the mastermind of his ouster from the Red Chamber.
Abbo spoke to journalists in Abuja on Monday shortly after the Court of Appeal nullified his election and declared Amos Yohanna of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the validly elected lawmaker for the senatorial district.
Senator Abbo, who further alleged that four other senators have been targeted for removal from the Red Chamber, said they were being hounded because they opposed Senator Akpabio’s emergence as Senate President in the election conducted last June.
He 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 (APC) would 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.
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“I won’t mention the names of all the four other ones targeted, but the next in line is Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.”
Abbo, whose victory was upheld by the Election Petition Tribunal, which dismissed the petition of the PDP for lack of merit, said the judgement of the Court of Appeal was strange.
“The court judgement is strange, and the judiciary needs to 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 that he should please lead in protecting it,” he said.
But Akpabio has dismissed Abbo’s allegations.