A senator, Elisha Abbo, caught on
camera assaulting a woman, has appeared before a Senate committee set up to
investigate the incident.
Mr Abbo appeared before the
Senate ad-hoc committee on Tuesday afternoon.
The Adamawa senator, however,
refused to take an oath before the panel. He also refused to speak in the
presence of journalists.
Persons invited before Senate
committees are made to take oaths to pledge to say the truth before they are
allowed to testify.
The lawmaker and members of the committee
exchanged words when Mr Abbo insisted he would address the panel before taking
an oath.
Oluremi Tinubu, a member of the
committee, had asked Mr Abbo to swear an oath before saying anything. But he
bluntly refused; saying the case was in court.
“This matter is in court. I
cannot be talking in front of cameras when the matter is already in court.
That’s subjudice,” he said.
“Distinguished. You just joined
us. We have a procedure and we are also under law. You don’t come in here and
dictate to us what should be done,” Mrs Tinubu told the opposition senator.
“You are on the other side now.
You don’t tell us what to do…because we can suspend you,” she added.
An angry Mr Abbo promptly
interjected “I will not sit here and listen to you threaten me with suspension.
I am a senator like you. You cannot threaten me with suspension.”
There was chaos which lasted for
some minutes. Journalists were thereafter asked to the leave for the meeting to
continue behind closed doors.
The police arraigned the Adamawa
senator before a court on Monday and granted him bail of N5 million.
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