By Austin Ogwuda
Virtually everything about Senator Elisha Abbo, representing Adamawa North in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is enmeshed in controversy.
Youthful Elisha’s outlook in the first place is bizarre. Although many may not agree with me but in a corporate world, his hairstyle alone gives him away as a rascal.
Remember the sex toy story where he visited a sex toy shop to shop and ended up slapping a lady brutally while his armed security men stood akimbo.
Needless to bore you with the court proceedings that later followed and the outcome.
That’s controversy Number 2.
Nigerians woke up again to be entertained with another round of controversy, Controversy Number 3.
What happened?
The Court of Appeal, few days ago, sent him packing from the Red Chambers, declaring one Amos Yohanna, his Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) rival as winner of the election after approaching the Appellate court.
Loquacious Elisha Abbo went wild levelling serious allegations against the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio for being the brain behind his sacking.
Hear him , “I 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.
“I won’t mention the names of all the four other ones targeted but the next in line is Senator Orji Uzor Kalu”, he dropped the bombshell.
He went further to question why the Appellate court will declare his closest rival, Yohanna Amos Yohanna of the Peoples Democratic Party, whom he defeated with over 11,000 votes winner of the senatorial election.
“The court judgment is strange and the judiciary needs to please remain the last hope of the common man”, he added.
Although Abbo personified a weird behavioral attitude but frankly speaking should the controversy Number 3 be allowed to be swept under the carpet?
That’s the basis for this write up.
Poser Number One:
Is Akpabio so powerful to chase Abbo out of the Red Chambers through the back door, using the judiciary.
Abbo did not stop there, he mentioned others lined up to be slaughtered too who are not in the good book of the Senate President.
The Town Hall Media sees the allegations as very grave to be ignored.Abbo has stirred the hornet nest; which challenges the Judiciary to convince the public that Akpabio has not pocketed them.
When such serious indictment is hung on the neck of the Third arm of Government and graveyard silence merely observed without a convincing rebuttal with facts laid on the table or commence defamatory/libellous action against the author of the grievous allegations, the tongues might begin to wag.
Aside that, security agencies should not just look away. The Abbo allegations are worth investigating, and if found to be unfounded, adequate punishment should be served adequately to serve as deterrent to others.
The Town Hall Media is not bothered about the political jingoism because it is not a secret that Abbo was one of the arrowheads spearheading the impeachment of Akpabio which he narrowly escaped.
The concern here is the corporate image of this country called Nigeria if not valued here but what of abroad where we need acceptance to get aids as usual.
While we are still battling with the nightmare about the veracity over alleged certificate scandals involving our Number One citizen, another damaging allegation is being heaped on the Judiciary, which is grappling with confidence building.
Nigeria’s image, if care is not taken is nose diving into the abyss with one drama after the other without due attention paid to it.
Therefore, let Abbo’s allegations be subjected to proof whether he is a controversial man or not.