Court Dismisses Assault Charge Against Senator Elisha Abbo

-Zuba Magistrate Court dismisses assaults allegation against Adamawa-North lawmaker, Senator Elisha Abbo

A Magistrate Court in Zuba, Abuja, has dismissed assault case against Adamawa-North lawmaker, Senator Elisha Abbo who was spotted in a viral video slapping a woman, Osimibibra Warmate who challenged him at an adult sex toy shop in May.

It can be recalled that in the year 2019, the Nigerian police arraigned Senator Elisha Abbo, at the Zuba Magistrates’ Court in Abuja, over assault on a woman, after which he admitted to his crime and apologized to the victim.

During the trial, two witnesses testified against Senator Abbo and they were, Warmate who was the nominal complainant and a police officer, ASP Mary Daniel, who investigated the matter.

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In her testimony, Warmate said she had gone to visit a friend, Kemi at Pleasure Chest Sex Toy Shop, Banex Plaza, Wuse 2, Abuja on May 11, 2019, when the lawmaker walked in with three women.

She said one of the women that accompanied Abbo started vomiting and later fainted.

Warmate said when she left the shop, she received a frantic call from the owner of the shop asking her to come to her aid as the lawmaker had accused her of fouling the shop’s air conditioning system that caused one of his female companions to vomit and was threatening to get her arrested.

The victim said when she returned to the shop and was cleaning up the vomit, two men – one of them a policeman in uniform – barged into the shop and assaulted them on the orders of Senator Elisha Abbo

Despite the viral video and other testimonies tendered, the Magistrate, Abdullahi Ilelah, upheld a no-case submission filed by Abbo, stating that the police failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the lawmaker assaulted Warmate on May 11, 2019.

The magistrate stated, “The IPO (Investigating Police Officer) did not investigate this case at all or she just charged the defendant to court via the F.I.R (First Information Report) without due care and attention. In fact, she has succeeded in creating a doubt in the mind of this court during cross-examination and the Supreme Court held that where there is a doubt in a criminal trial, such doubt should be resolved in favour of the defendant.”

He said the court would rely on the law and not logic or media reports because he who alleges must prove.