Former Adamawa North senator Elijah Ishaku Abbo has charged that the judiciary manipulated the results of the 2023 election against him.
Remember how the Court of Appeal in Abuja ruled on October 16, 2023, that Abbo’s election was void and that PDP candidate Amos Yohanna was the legitimate victor of the Adamawa North senatorial election held on February 25, 2023?
Abbo said he lost his Senate seat in the 10th Senate because of “judicial banditry” in an interview on Arise Television’s PrimeTime show on Wednesday night, April 2, 2025.
The court system was tainted, according to Abbo, who claimed that the judge was under pressure to decide against him.
He claimed that inconsistencies in the legal system were validated by the judge’s decision to summon former Senate President Ken Nnamani to his home to plead a case.
Senator Abbo, who expressed concern over what he called a lack of accountability in the court, argued that the NJC had failed in its role and called for its abolition.
“There is no law that supports what happened, so I lost my senatorial seat through judicial banditry,” he stated. I think the judge is aware of what she did, which is why she had to send Ken Nnamani to come to my house and plead with me. The fact that Ken Nnamani is still alive is also accurate.
She was under pressure, of course, and I’ve said that often. Regretfully, I petitioned the National Judicial Council (NJC), but the NJC has evolved into a body that can only take action against magistrates and high court judges, not large judges.
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He proclaimed, “They should dismantle the NJC; they are doing nothing.” “I am arguing that the NBA ought to be the one to discipline judges by removing them from office through a vote of no confidence.”
The former federal lawmaker also criticized the court’s ruling, specifically the fact that two of Adamawa North’s five local government areas had their election results canceled without a rerun.
“A case where a judge declared that an election was held in five local governments, and she canceled the election in two of them, disenfranchised two local governments, 263 polling places, and did not order a re-election as required by law—that is not the law, that is robbery, that is a coup against democracy,” he continued.
