Controversial politician, Ishaku Elisha Abbo, has won the Adamawa Northern Senatorial district on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the second time. The senator who launched into the limelight for assaulting a woman in a sex toy shop polled a total of 71,927 votes to defeat his opponent, Reverend Yohanna Amos of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. His victory was greeted with wild jubilation by his supporters, who considered the contest a tug of war. But Abbo scaled some hurdles before clinching the senatorial district.
He was once axed by his party for speaking out against its Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket. He had gone on a live television to criticise the presidential candidate of his party, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu. His utterance led to his expulsion from the party. After which a high court in Yola nullified his nomination as the candidate of the APC for the Northern Senatorial District of Adamawa State.
The court ruled that Abbo was not entitled to seek re-election having been expelled by his ward chapter of the APC. The politician had to run to the Yola Division of the Court of Appeal to fight for his political ambition. He was however cleared by the Appeal Court to represent his party at the 2023 election. Aside from the court cases instituted to fight for his political ambition, the controversial politician has been a regular face in the courtroom. He was charged to court for assault in 2019.
Abbo had visited a sex toy shop where he assaulted a woman, Osimibibra Warmate in 2019. Though he later apologized publicly for his mistake, he had to turn himself in to the police and was charged to court with a fine of N50 million naira as compensation to the woman. However, a magistrate court dismissed the assault case. His controversial lifestyle also extends to the home front as he has been called out for domestic violence which led to the death of Uche Eucharia Ojukwu, his second wife in 2013. Ojukwu had met Abbo while she was serving in Nasarawa State. They became lovers and got married in 2009. Then, his first wife who had a son for him had just left him. Abbo turned Ojukwu to his punching bag. He would beat her up and lock her half naked outside their house. He later allegedly started brandishing a pistol just to scare her and silence her. He allegedly infected her with HIV which led to many medical complications because it was not discovered on time. While she was sick and dying in the hospital, Abbo allegedly abandoned her and it was her family that were taking care of her until she died of kidney failure.
