Ex-Senator Abbo Breaks Silence On Alleged Rape Of 13-Year-Old Girl

A former senator from Adamawa State, Elisha Abbo has described report that he was detained by the police for raping a 13-year-old girl as the handiwork of his political detractors. orchestrated to disturb his peace.

The former Senator said this in reaction to a viral report that he was detained by the police in Abuja after the mother of the alleged rape victim reported the incident.

Also, the reports had indicated that a former female senator from Adamawa State tried to stop the mother of the victim from reporting the incident to the police.

But speaking to journalists in Abuja on Friday, the former Adamawa North Senator denied claims in the reports.

He, however, revealed that a woman had recently accused him of assaulting her daughter.

The Senator said the woman demanded N5 million payment so that she will not report the alleged assault to the the police.

Abbo said he reported the matter to the police himself.

“The thing is that someone first requested N5 million from me that I assaulted her daughter and that I must pay her N5 million if not she will take me to the police and I told her that I’ll report the matter to the police.

“So, I reported the matter to the police myself, they invited me to come and I was away, so the moment I came in, I went to the police station, the mother now printed that news,” he told journalists in Abuja on Friday.

The Senator said the report was orchestrated by his political enemies.

“The said report is the handiwork of my political detractors. It is an orchestrated smear campaign to disturb my peace by political enemies,” he added.

However the police has not reacted to the controversies over the alleged rape. But this was not the first time that the Adamawa State Senator will be linked to a sexual controversy.

Abbo grabbed the headlines when he was caught on camera assaulting a woman in an Abuja adult toy shop in 2019.

However, she later apologized to the victim of the assault.

A woman had also on a popular Abuja radio station in 2024 accused him of secretly recording an intimate video with her.

The woman claimed Abbo later released the video online to blackmail her.

But the former Senator denied the accusation.

Abbo was sacked as the the Senator in October 2023 by the Court of Appeal

Delivering Judgement, the three-member panel presided over by Justice Chioma Nwosu-Iheme, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to issue a Certificate of Return to Amos Yohanna of the Peoples Democratic Party as the duly elected senator representing Adamawa North Senatorial District in the National Assembly.

The judgement invalidated INEC’s declaration of had declared Abbo winner of the February 25, 2023 parliamentary election.