Senator Elisha Abbo who is in the eye of a storm for
attacking and beating up a woman who tried to prevent him and others with him
from assaulting another woman has reacted to the scandal, confirming that he is
indeed the man in the video.
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The assault, which was first reported by Premium Times, has
sparked outrage with many Nigerians calling for his prosecution and urging the
Senate to also discipline him.
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When contacted, the Senator told Channels Television that he
would release an official statement in reaction to the assault video.
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"We will be releasing statement maybe tomorrow afternoon,ÔÇØ
he said, adding that the incident happened before he became a Senator.
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Beyond that, the Senator claimed that the roughly 10-minute
video was incomplete, claiming he was at the shop because his sister had been
assaulted there and that part was left out.
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He said, "We will soon release an official statement to the
viral video which happened before I became a senator where my younger sister
was beaten to a pulp in a shop and I was called upon there; where I had to call
an ambulance and a police to come to the scene and it got out of hand I was
also assaulted.
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"It is an old video, but we will soon release a statement to
that effect.
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"It was my sister that was at the store and she was
assaulted; in fact, she fainted in the shop but they compressed the video and
cut that part out of it.
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"They took her out to resuscitate her, the one standing with
a cap is a doctor, the doctor had to come to give her life. My sister is not in
the video, it was completely cropped out of it.ÔÇØ
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Senator Abbo said he would be demanding the release of the
full recording.
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"This is a political season and now I am now a politician,
before I was not a politician but now the reality of the fact is that I am now
a politician and politicians are not people who are liked, they exhume things
of 20 years and they hang it on their neck now,ÔÇØ he said.
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"As I said before we will release a robust response to
everything, and we will also ask for the entire video to be released since they
have the video. We will seat and discuss about the video. Just to be clear that
video was taken long before now and it was released just as this point.ÔÇØ
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In the CCTV video, the Senator had, however, not mentioned
anything about his sister being assaulted. The video showed him seated in the
shop for a while as activities went on. He then got on the phone, walked out of
the office for a bit, came back in and sat down.
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Four minutes into the video, he received another call.
Shortly after, a policeman came in and he informed the policeman, that the shop
attendant is his friend but that she insulted him.
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"She is not my enemy; she is my friend. We are not enemies;
she is my friend and I have known her for over five years. But she insulted me.
She said I am drunk, I am stupid and I am mad,ÔÇØ he said before asking the
policeman to take her away.
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As he was speaking to the policeman, the lady made a call of
her own to inform her father about what was going on, but the move angered
Abbo, who ordered her to stop the call.
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As she tried to round up the call, another man with Abbo
tried to slap the phone away, prompting another woman in the shop to intervene.
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After the woman asked the man to "take it easyÔÇØ, Abbo flew into the raged and attacked her. (ChannelsTV)
