Court Sacks Adamawa’s APC Senator Abbo, Gives Victory To PDP’s Yohanna

By Adesina Soyooye

The Ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has lost one of its Senators to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Ishaku Abbo, the Senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, was, on Monday, sacked by the Court of Appeal which sat in Abuja.

Elected for a second term on February 25, 2023, Abbo was sacked in favour  of Amos Yohanna of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Abbo was a member of the PDP before he defected to the APC. However, during the Campaign leading to the Presidential Election, he quit as a member of the APC Presidential Campaign Committee over the Party’s Muslim-Muslim ticket. He said it was difficult for him, as a Christian, to accept a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a multi-religious country like Nigeria.

Just before he was sworn-in as a Senator in 2019, Abbo was involved in a physical fight with a saleswoman at an adult shop in Abuja.

He was later to tender an apology after he was asked to do so by his political mentor, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential Candidate of the PDP in 2019 and 2023.