If you have been out of the loop, Premium Times released footage showing Elisah Abbo physically assaulting a woman in an adult store in Abuja. Abbo is the senator representing Adamawa North senatorial district, on the platform of the PDP and the viral video has generated a frenzied buzz on social media, overwhelmingly calling for the senator to be removed from his position with the appropriate punishment meted out to him. Here’s the video, in case you haven’t seen it:
In the presence of a police officer, Nigerian Senator Elisha Abbo, representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, assaults sales staff in an adult toy store in Abuja. pic.twitter.com/ezDpecGetD
— T. Rankïn’ ∆ ? (@AfroVII) July 2, 2019
It’s quite hard to believe to see a newly-elected senator publicly assaulting a woman, in the presence of policeman who stood by and did nothing. And the irony is that his senatorial win was at the expense of Binta Marsi Garba of the APC, who was the only Northern female lawmaker in the Senate. And Abike Dabiri-Erewa pointed it out in her tweet:
To think that this PDP guy .was said to have “defeated”one of our most respected female parliamentarians, Senator Binta Masi Garba. The Senate must not protect him. He should be charged . The footage is enough evidence . He deserves to be in Prison https://t.co/6i944p55sj
— Abike Dabiri-Erewa (@abikedabiri) July 2, 2019
Sure, Abbo deserves to be punished for his disgusting behaviour, Dabiri-Erewa shouldn’t have used the moment to score cheap political points, which has been a tactic so ingrained in our political structure. It’s not a good look on her position, overseeing diaspora affairs and even for our politics in general.
When Bernard Dayo isn’t writing about pop culture, he’s watching horror movies and reading comics and trying to pretend his addiction to Netflix isn’t a serious condition.
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