Senator Elisha Abbo who assaulted a nursing mother in a sex-toy shop in Abuja is in fresh trouble.
A photojournalist, Olumuyiwa Owolabi has revealed what the lawmaker did to him…
“The viral video of Senator Elisha Abbo assaulting a young lady isn’t a new to me as I was one of his victims of assault years back. I met him during the campaign of former Governor Ayodele Fayose while I was the official photojournalist assigned to Fayose during the electioneering campaign and later head of photojournalists to his deputy after the election.”
“Abbo who was contesting for senator on the platform of the All Progressives Congress at the time, entered into a contract with me to cover his political activities at the cost of N2.8m.”
“On August 13, 2014, I travelled with Abbo to Yola, Adamawa State, from Abuja by air and we lodged at Lelewa hotel for weeks while campaigning for the primaries which was eventually won by Senator Binta Garba.”
“I travelled along with the senator from Adamawa to Mubi, Vintim Muchala to Mubi and later back to Yola after he lost the senatorial primary. On approaching Senator Abbo to enforce the contract agreement we had, he refused to pay. He ignored several pleas for him to just give me part of my money.”
“On the fateful day we wanted to travel together to Mubi for the last campaign, Boko Haram invaded the place prior to the day we ought to have travelled. Due to the attack by Boko Haram, I began to plead with him that I needed to leave the state.”
“After several text messages and calls put through to him were ignored, I had no choice but to sit in front of his room where he was lodged at Dansoho Hotel, Yola. This was around 5pm.”
“As soon as he came out, I began to plead with him that I had to go. The next thing he said was that I was embarrassing him. He started beating and slapping me. He told his orderly to put me inside the pickup truck. He told them to point their guns at me and that he would kill me and tell people I was a member of Boko Haram.”
“When I heard that statement, I was shocked because I didn’t know anybody there and I couldn’t speak their language fluently. No one could come to my rescue when he brutalised me, causing me to sprain my ankle.”
“I began begging him to just leave me and let me go that I would leave the money for him because of his action.”
“Abbo’s police escort took me to Kaliwa Police Division around 2am with the instruction that I should be shot dead if I failed to comport himself. Abbo had broken my phone at the time and so I was locked up in the police station without any means of contacting anyone.”
“He had damaged my phone I couldn’t contact anybody; he tore my clothes and I was virtually naked. That very night, on getting to Kaliwa police station, I begged the investigating police officer to please let me use his phone to talk to one of my relatives. That was how I called one of my brothers that pleaded with the IPO to assist me out of the situation.”
“The DPO came the following morning and begged him (Abbo) to give me transport fare to go back to meet my family. Till date, he hasn’t paid me the money.”