Senator Elisha Abbo (APC – Adamawa North) has said he quit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because the party “is dead”.
He disclosed this Wednesday at a talent hunt soccer competition organised by the youth wing of his political campaign structure, referred to as Senator Ishaku Abbo Ambassadors, (SIA Ambassadors) in Ganye, Adamawa.
“I left the PDP because the PDP is dead,” the controversial senator said when asked if disagreements with Governor Ahmadu Fintiri forced him out of the party.
He further revealed that he would vie for the Adamawa state governorship seat.
The senator said he remained a role model to Nigerian youths being one of the youngest ever elected senator in Nigeria.
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In May 2019, Abbo was found to have repeatedly slapped a nursing mother at a sex toy shop in Abuja.
A CCTV footage of the incident went viral in early July 2019.
He was later arraigned by the police before a magistrate court in Zuba, on a one-count charge of assault.
But despite video evidence of the incident, Abdullahi Ilelah, the magistrate, upheld the no-case submission filed by the lawmaker and dismissed the case.
An FCT High Court in Abuja in September 2020 ordered the lawmaker to pay the sum of fifty million naira to the victim, Osimibibra Warmate for assault.
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