On Monday the All Old Bende Youth Movement Nationwide has warned Senator Elisha Abbo, who represented Adamawa North, against interfering in the legal dispute over the outcome of the Abia North senatorial election.
Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Senator Orji Uzor Kalu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the election but the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Nnamdi Iroh Orji, is challenging the result.
Orji has filed an appeal after the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal dismissed his petition against Kalu’s election.
In now recanted comments after his election was nullified by the Court of Appeal, Abbo had alleged that his sack was as a result of power play.
He also claimed that four other senators, including Kalu, have been penciled down for removal over their failure to support Godswill Akpabio’s senate presidency bid.
“A very highly placed Nigerian citizen told me that five of us were slated for removal. I would be going and Orji Uzor Kalu would follow me and we would all go. That is a fact,” Abbo said, describing the issue as a coup on democracy.
However, in a communique issued over the legal battle over the Abia North senatorial seat, the All Old Bende Youth Movement Nationwide warned Abbo to desist from making insinuations concerning the issue.
In a statement jointly signed by the National President Uchendu Udensi and National Secretary, George Iboko, the Bende youths backed the Senate President, saying he has no hand in Abbo’s fate.
The youths further insisted that Kalu did not win the election for Abia North as voting did not take place in 105 polling units in the Senatorial District.
Parts of the statement read, “We also frown at the former Senator Ishaka Abbo in his accusations and unfounded facts against the leadership of the Senate.
“The All Old Bende Youths Movement Nationwide cautioned that the unseated Senator Ishaka Abbo from Adamawa State should distance himself on election issues related to Abia North Senatorial District of Abia State.
“The Judiciary is hereby re-alerted on the inconclusive elections in Abia North, still awaiting for outright resolution for the fact that in 105 polling units in Ohafia and Arochukwu Local Government Areas in Abia State elections did not hold.
“Also approximately 50,000 and above citizens who collected PVCs, were not allowed to exercise their franchise in 3 Federal Wards in Ohafia LGA in Abia State during the past 2023 general election.”
