The senator representing Adamawa North, Elisha Abbo who was removed by appeal Court on Monday, has fingered Senate President Godswill Akpabio to be the mastermind of his ordeal while disclosing others that will suffer same fate as him.<\/p>\n
Journalist101 recalls that the appellate court sitting in Abuja voided the election of Abbo of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Abbo winner of the February 25, 2023 parliamentary election, but Amos Yohanna, his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, rejected the result and headed for the court.<\/p>\n
The tribunal, in its judgement, dismissed Yohanna\u2019s petition for lacking in merit.<\/p>\n
The PDP\u2019s candidate, through his counsel Johnson Usman (SAN), approached the Appeal Court.<\/p>\n
The Court of Appeal, after hearing arguments from parties, agreed with Usman that based on Section 137 of the Electoral Act, 2022, the results tendered clearly showed that there was no compliance with the Electoral Act.<\/p>\n
The court, thereafter, deducted the invalid votes from the parties and found that Yohanna and PDP won the election by majority of lawful votes.<\/p>\n
The three-member panel presided over by Justice C.E. Nwosu-Iheme, in a judgement, ordered INEC to issue a Certificate of Return to Yohanna as validly elected lawmaker for the senatorial district.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the court\u2019s ruling, Abbo said four other senators who worked against the emergence of Akpabio as Senate President had been targeted for removal from the Red Chamber through the court.<\/p>\n
In an interview with reporters on Monday in Abuja, Abbo specifically mentioned Senator Orji Uzor Kalu (APC Abia North) as the next target for removal from the Senate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have it from a reliable source that myself and four other senators within the fold of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will 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.0<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t mention the names of all the four other ones targeted but the next in line is Senator Orji Uzor Kalu,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He wondered how with over 11,000 votes margin of victory he had above his closest river, Yohanna Amos Yohanna of the Peoples Democratic Party in the election, the Appeal Court upturned his victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe court judgement is strange and the judiciary needs to please remain the last hope of the common man,\u201d Abbo said.<\/p>\n
He, however, appealed to his supporters to remain calm, vowing to re-contest in 2027.<\/p>\n
Efforts made to get the reaction of Akpabio to the allegation did not yield result at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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