“I Wasn’t A Senator When I Assaulted Her”- Elisha Abbo Says As He Breaks Silence On Assault Inside Abuja Sex Toy Shop

The Senator representing Adamawa North senatorial district, Elisha Abbo, has reacted to the viral video showing him assault a woman in an adult shop in Abuja.

Speaking to Channels Television, Abbo said that the incident happened before he became Senator, adding that the store owner only released a part of the video. He said that the part of the footage which showed an ambulance taking away his younger sister who he claimed was assaulted in the said shop had being cut out.

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 policeman to come to the scene and it got out of hand I was also assaulted.

“It is an old video, but we will soon release a statement to that effect.

“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.

“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.”

Senator Abbo said he would be demanding the release of the full recording.

“This is a political season and now I am 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,” he said.

“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 the video. Just to be clear that video was taken long before now and it was released just as this point.”

Contrary to the Senator’s claims, the CCTV video shows nothing about him mentioning his Sister’s assault. The 10 minute long footage showed him seated in the shop as activities went on. He then got on the phone, walked out of the office for a bit, came back in and sat down.

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.

“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,”

he said before asking the policeman to take her away.

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.

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.

After the woman asked the man to “take it easy”, Abbo flew into the raged and attacked her.

Watch the video below:

The assault, whose video was first published by Premium Times, reportedly occurred on May 11. The video has also caused some outraged among Nigerians, celebrities and human rights organisations including Amnesty International calling for the arrest and prosecution of the Senator.