Akpabio Plotting to Remove Orji Kalu From Senate? Ex-Lawmaker Faults Abbo's Allegation
Honourable Richard Ngene, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and former lawmaker in the Enugu State House of Assembly, has dismissed the allegation that Godswill Akpabio, the president of the Senate, was planning to remove Senator Orju Uzor Kalu from the Red Chamber.
Ishaku Abbo, the Senator representing Adamawa North in the Upper Chamber, raised the alarm while addressing a press conference last week when the court of appeal sacked him as a lawmaker from the Adamawa North Senatorial District.
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Why appeal court sack Senator Abbo
The appeal court had agreed that the election that produced Abbo did not follow Section 137 of the 2022 Electoral Act, sacked him and declared Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s Amos Yohanna as the winner of the election.
During the hearing, the court removed the number of void votes, and after recounting, the court discovered that Abbo did not win the election and declared Yohanna as the authentic winner of the poll.
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But in his reaction at a press conference on Monday, October 16, Abbo alleged that Senate President Akpabio was behind his defeat at the court, alleging that he and four other senators who worked against Akpabio during Senate presidential election were the target.
He further maintained Senator Kalu from Abia north was the next target after him, citing a reliable and undisclosed source.
Ngene dismisses Senator Abbo's allegation
Speaking with Legit.ng on the allegation, Ngene described the case of Abbo as a man who was drowning and trying to find another man that would go down with him because his allegation had no basis.
The Enugu-born politician maintained that the ruling APC did not make move to remove Abbo during his sex toy case in 2019 and the party was not doing that now.
He said:
"Elisha Abbo wasn’t removed in 2019 by APC when he had sex toy case. It’s now that the APC in the senate caucus led by Akpabio will try to remove him. There is no basis for that. It’s mere of a drowning man trying to hold on to something.
"There was a national protest against Elisha Abbo, from all the women coalitions in Nigeria notably led by Aisha Yusuf’s and Deji with a petition to the then IG."
Election: Abbo wins in Appeal Court to fly APC’s Adamawa North flag
Legit.ng earlier reported that the appeal court in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, has upheld the candidature of Senator Ishaku Abbo to hold the APC senatorial ticket for Adamawa North in tomorrow's election.
The court dismissed the ruling of the state high court that earlier upheld the suspension of Abbo by the party's executive at Nubi North LGA of the state.
Abbo was suspended last year after campaigning against the APC Muslim-Muslin ticket.
Source: Legit.ng
