Adamawa North: Abbo attacks Akpabio over A-Court sack
•Akpabio removed me, planning to remove Kalu, 4 others —Abbo •I’ve no hand in your removal —Akpabio SENATOR Elisha Abbo has alleged that Senate President Godswill Akpabio plotted his removal by the Court of Appeal. Abbo made this allegation at his residence in Abuja, yesterday, hours after the Court of Appeal nullified his senatorial election. The Adamawa senator claimed that Akpabio also has plans to remove former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and four other senators for not backing his senate presidency bid. Abbo described the judgment sacking him as a coup against democracy but urged his supporters to remain calm. The senator insisted that despite the court declaring Amos Yohanna of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, 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. Recall the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, earlier yesterday, sacked Abbo. The ap...