Senator Elisha Abbo
Senator Elisha Abbo was relatively unknown before the assault
scandal pushed him into public space leaving him with scars that will
take time to heal.
Abbo is currently representing the Adamawa North senatorial
district on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and
his happily married to his beautiful wife, Emily Eric.
Here are some other things you may not know about him:
1). Elisha Abbo hails from Muchalla village of Mubi North L.G.A.
Adamawa State. He is said to be one of the youngest Senator in the
country at the age of 41 who joined politics in 2014 thereby once
referring to him as the ‘Face of the Youth’ in the Nigerian politics.
2). He contested and won the seat of Senator representing Adamawa
North district on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in the
2019 elections having polled 79,337 votes as against the Senator Binta
Masi Garba (only female lawmaker from Northern Nigeria) of the APC, who
scored the closest votes with 63,219 votes.
3). He once sued the authorities of the Nigerian Naval Training
College, Port Harcourt for not admitting him on the grounds of his
health status despite passing the recruitment test.
4). He was a former Senior Special Assistant to Governor Murtala
Nyako and former Executive Secretary of the Adamawa State Sports &
Youths Council. Before his emergence as a senator, he was the Managing
Director and CEO of Saice & Wright Group, Abuja, a multinational
political consultancy firm.
5). Abbo, who supported the APC in 2015, switched sides in 2018
when he visited former President Goodluck Jonathan to apologize for
criticizing him. Elisha Abbo is said to be identified with Muslim
communities that form a large part of his constituency, Senator Abbo is a
Christian and believer of Jesus Christ and the doctrines of the Holy
Bible.