Senator Elisha Abbo
The Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu has ordered for a thorough probe into the alleged assault of an Abuja lady by Senator Elisha Abbo.
Sen. Abbo representing Adamawa North Senatorial District is in the eye of a storm for attacking and beating up a woman in a store in Abuja.
The assault which was first reported by Premium Times was caught on camera and the video which later went viral has continued to generate reactions as Nigerians condemn the act.
The senator has since confirmed that he is indeed the man in the video but claimed that the video was incomplete and not a recent incident.
He said, “We will soon release an official statement to the viral video which happened before I became a senator where my younger sister was beaten to a pulp in a shop and I was called upon there; where I had to call an ambulance and a police to come to the scene and it got out of hand, I was also assaulted”.
“It is an old video, but we will soon release a statement to that effect. It was my sister that was at the store and she was assaulted; in fact, she fainted in the shop but they compressed the video and cut that part out of it”.
“This is a political season and now I am a politician, before I was not a politician but now the reality of the fact is that I am now a politician and politicians are not people who are liked, they exhume things of 20 years and they hang it on their neck now,” he said.
“As I said before, we will release a robust response to everything, and we will also ask for the entire video to be released since they have the video. We will seat and discuss about the video. Just to be clear that video was taken long before now and it was released just as this point.”
