Sen Abbo goes on appeal to regain APC election ticket in Adamawa

Senator Ishaku Abbo, representing Adamawa North Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has declared that he will appeal the judgment of the Adamawa State High Court 3 presided by Justice Danladi Mohammed, which disqualified him from contesting the 2023 senatorial  election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Abbo was quoted to have said that the ruling of Justice Mohammed, which held that the Senator and the APC are bound by the resolution of Mubi North Local Government Executives on October 7, 2022, which expelled Abbo from the party, and that the senator is not entitled to enjoy any right or privilege accorded to APC members, was ‘cash and carry judgement’.

Abbo argued that the judgement was  flawed because those who purportedly expelled him from the party were not local government party executives and therefore have no jurisdiction to expel him.

The senator maintained that only the ward executive of the party, according to the APC constitution, has the right to punish any erring member of the party and not the local government or even the state exco.

Abbo observed that the presiding judge had once issued a restraining order on the local government exco from parading themselves as exco.

Abbo declaring resolve to approach the Court of Appeal to upturn the judgment, urged his supporters to remain calm.