Mr. Ishaku Elisha Abbo, who represented Adamawa North Senatorial district until his election was annulled by the Court of Appeal on Monday, has apologised over his allegation that Senate President Godswill Akpabio plotted his judicial removal.
The Court of Appeal, which is the terminal intervention point for elections into the National and state assemblies, sitting in Abuja, ruled in favour of his opponent, Mr. Amos Yohanna of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Abbo was elected in February 2023 under the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to serve a second term.
Hours after the Appeal Court ruling, Abbo claimed that five senators had been penciled for removal over their non-support of Godswill Akpabio’s senate presidency bid. He listed former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu among the five senators targeted for reprisal.
But in an interview with Arise television on Tuesday evening, Abbo tendered apology to Akpabio.
He said: “I have to say with all sense of humility and responsibility that the press release we issued yesterday (Monday) was premature and based on the available information at our disposal.
“As of today, we have discovered a lot of things, and yesterday night, I had a discussion with the Senate President, and I am convinced that he is not involved.
He quoted Akpabio as saying to him: “I swear by my mother’s grave that I’m not involved; I don’t even know that you’re in court”.
Abbo, who was caught on camera assaulting Ms Osimibibra Warmate at a sex shop in Abuja on 29th September 2020, further said: “For a No. 3 citizen to come up to tell me that he has sworn on his mother’s grave, a woman that he loves so much, a woman who brought him up after he lost his father at the age of six, I don’t see a reason why he would lie”.
