Akpabio spoke on Arise TV on Wednesday and criticized Akpabio for allegedly ordering Akpoti-Outuaghan’s six-month suspension of the Senate, contrasting it with his own meeting with Akpabio in the 8th Senate. Former Adamawa North Senator Ishaku Elisha Abbo accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of acting like a ’emperor’ in dealing with the allegation of sexual harassment raised by Senator Natasha Akpoti-U-Auduaghan. Akpabio spoke on Arise TV on Wednesday and criticized Akpabio for allegedly ordering Akpoti-Outuaghan’s six-month suspension of the Senate, contrasting it with his own meeting with Akpabio in the 8th Senate. He remembers an oral oppression between Akpabio and the then Senate President Bukola Saraki over seat arrangements, emphasizing that Akpabio was not suspended. “In Natasha’s case, Akpabio acted like an emperor and ordered her suspension for six months,” Abbo said. The former senator also re -visited its result of the Senate and called it an act of ‘judicial bandit’. He claimed that the judge who ruled against him knew that the decision was unfair, revealing that an intermediary was later sent to his home to plead with him. “The judge ruled that the election took place at five local governments, but canceled the results in two, which influenced 203 polling stations, without ordering a repetition. That was a good robbery,” he said. Abbo has further criticized the National Judicial Council (NJC) for the inability to discipline and plead for the restructuring of the body to ensure liability. When he was questioned about his controversial past, including an incident where he was filmed with a shop owner in Abuja, Abbo claims that the video excluded the part where his sister was allegedly assaulted. In 2019, Abbo widespread criticism faces after being filmed to attack a woman in a sex toy store in Abuja. The court subsequently imposed a fine of N50 million on the legislature for the assault. A few months later, Abbo was captured on camera again, this time a man named Silas Daniel assaulted in his hometown of Mubi. Silas, a former personal assistant (father) to Abbo, was reportedly attacked with Machete, Daggers and Clubs by thugs acting under the legislature’s orders. On January 4, 2023, Saharan Porters revealed that policemen of the federal capital, who acted according to Senator Abbo’s orders, continued the freelance journalist Yau Saed Mubi. Mubi was arrested on December 27 after a publication in which he criticized the lack of good management in Adamawa North, which represented Abbo at the time.
Akpabio ordered Natasha’s suspension while never punished for the same offense under Saraki’s leadership – Senator Abbo
