Sen. Elisha Abbo has alleged that his removal was due to power play in the Red Chamber. He also said that four other senators had been penciled for removal over their non-support of Godswill Akpabio’s Senate Presidency bid.
He said this at his residence, in Abuja, on Monday, hours after the Court of Appeal nullified his election into the Senate.
During the press conference, the removed senator, who represented Adamawa North, listed Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu as one of the five senators set to be butted out of the Upper Chamber for not supporting Akpabio’s bid.
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Said he, “At my level, I can’t afford to be flippant and I don’t speculate. At my level, I cannot speculate. What I am telling you is authentic.
“A very highly placed Nigerian citizen told me that five of us were slated for removal. I would be going and Orji Uzor Kalu would follow me and we would all go. That is a fact,” Sen. Abbo said.
While describing the judgment sacking him as a ‘coup on democracy’, he called on his supporters to remain calm despite the ruling.
“So, it is not about who wins or not. No. “This is a coup on democracy.”
He maintained that despite the court declaring the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Amos Yohanna, as the winner of the February election, he won the exercise.
According to him, he defeated the PDP candidate with a margin of 11,000 votes.