Senator Elisha Abbo has apologised for his allegation that the Senate President Godswill Akpabio was instrumental to his from his seat as Adamawa North senator by the Court of Appeal.
Abbo made the apology while speaking during an interview on Arise Television on Tuesday.
Recall that Abbo had earlier made the allegation at his residence in Abuja on Monday, hours after the Court of Appeal nullified his election into the Senate.
The Adamawa senator claimed that Akpabio also had plans to remove the former chief whip of the senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, and four other senators for not backing his senate presidency bid.
He stated, “I have to say this with all sense of humility and responsibility that the press release we issued yesterday [Monday] was premature and based on the available information at our disposal yesterday [Monday].
He said the senate president had proved to him that he had no hand in his troubles.
Read him: “I had a discussion with the senate president, my brother, my colleague, distinguished Senator Akpabio, and I am convinced that he is not involved.
“This is because we met yesterday, and let me go by his word ‘Senator Abbo, I swear on my mother’s grave that I am not involved in this.’
“For a number three citizen to come up to tell me that he has sworn on his mother’s grave, a woman that he loved so much, a woman who brought him up after he lost his father at the age of six, I don’t see a reason why he would lie.”
Abbo also emphasised that there was no plan to impeach senate president Akpabio, but “there was a plan to make him do that which is right.”
Abbo described what had happened with the court ruling as a judicial fraud, and stated, “A judge gave a ruling on a ground that does not exist.”
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