See How Senator Abbo Battered And Infected His Wife With HIV Before Her Death
Two of his accusers spoke with Saturday Sun. The worse allegation came from
Eunice Tochukwu Ojukwu, his sister-in-law, who alleged that Senator Abbo,
battered his late wife, Eucharia Uche Ishiaku, who eventually died of HIV.
Eunice Tochukwu Ojukwu made this allegation when she visited the Ikeja office
of the Sun newspaper yesterday.
“I am the immediate junior sister of Eucharia Uche Ishiaku who was married to
the man you all now know as
Senator Elisha Abbo,” she declared. “His real name is Clifford Ishiaku, that’s the name we knew
him till we saw the story on social media that he is now a senator.”
She lamented that her sister would have been alive if her husband had informed
her about his health status.
The second story, from Owolabi Olumuyiwa Tayo, a former business associate of
the Adamawa Senator, chronicled in detail their business dealing way back when
the man at the centre of the storm was a mere political jobber. Owolabi’s
gritty story of abuse of power, disrespect for contract and lack of regard for
friendship adds to the grisly portrait of the man who is reportedly Nigeria’s
“youngest lawmaker.”
The grim story of his stormy marriage
Without much ado, Eunice Ojukwu spilled the details.
According to her, the couple met sometime before 2009 and before they got
married, he converted from Islam to Christianity. On September 26, 2009, they
had their church wedding at a Catholic church in Mubi, Adamawa.
Months after, she took ill and thereafter was treating a regular ailment, not
knowing that she had been infected with HIV.
“I got to know about her illness in 2012,” she said.
“On her sick bed, she told me everything that happened, especially how she got
to know that she was infected with HIV.
She told me that she later discovered that her husband was already infected
but held that information from her while they were dating. Unknown to her, he
was going for treatment and was still sleeping with her without protection.
“It was destroying her system gradually and that made her sick.” Someone who
observed the frequency of her illness had urged her to go for a general test.
The Good Samaritan also paid for the test.
“This was how she found out that she was infected with HIV and that it was at
a critical stage. When she confronted him with her result, instead of
confessing,
Senator Abbo
battered my sister mercilessly.”
Ojukwu claimed the family got to know about the battering and made an effort
to rescue their daughter from the toxic marriage. “We knew that he was raping
our sister. He even tried to bring his friend so that both of them will sleep
with my sister at the same time. She took a lot of stitches as a result of
anal sex forced on her,” she said.
At a point, their father had contacted Ohanaeze Ndi-Igbo in Mubi, begging them
to bring back her daughter.
“The day she finally left in 2012, Senator Abbo followed her to the motor park
and created a scene. He wanted to drag her back but my father pleaded with the
driver to ensure that my sister boards the bus back to our village in
Anambra.”
Of her sister, she said: “She was a calm person who did not want to lose her
marriage, so she kept the information to herself. There were several fights
and when my sister calls me, I will plead with her to leave that man but she
will refuse. She believed so much in that marriage until she was very sick.
There was an instance where he battered her so much in their house in Abuja
and dragged her out of the house naked. Anytime that he was beating her up,
neighbors tried to intervene and he’d threaten them with a gun.”
She continued: “When they were in Abuja, he would dump her in the hospital for
days, and no one would be there to give her food till the hospital alerted us
and we’d send someone to her. We were in and out of the hospital for six
months before she died in 2013. When my sister died, he called that he was
going to deal with me that I was the one that killed my sister.”
She gave an insight into how her sister met him.
“Eunice said that they started dating during her National Youth Service Corps
days in Nasarawa in 2008. He had worked for so many known politicians in the
north. He visited their orientation camp and they met and became friends. When
our sister came up with the story of marriage, my family kicked against it.
My family was against the marriage because they were not in support of
inter-tribal marriage. We do not know much about the northerner and their
culture. When she died and I posted it on my Facebook wall, her friends
doubted it because
Senator Abbo
did not say anything about it on his Facebook wall.”
Saturday Sun wanted to know why she is coming out with the story now.
Eunice Ojukwu replied: “I want justice for my sister. In 2013, when my sister
died, I posted it on Facebook and no one took it seriously. He was a nobody
and I was the daughter of a nobody. Then social media was not as strong as it
is now. All I want is justice, let no one be deceived by those tears, he is an
evil man.”
In a face-saving video circulate on social media,
Abbo
had apologized to Nigerians over his shameful action, cutting a figure of a
remorseful man.
Ojukwu warned: “We are used to that his crocodile tears, whenever he comes
begging. Nigerians should not be deceived.”
Death threat and false accusation
On Thursday, four days after the infamous “Assault in a Sex Toy Shop” video
went viral, Owolabi Olumuyiwa Tayo was a guest of Saturday Sun. He also came
to narrate his ordeal at the hand of Senator Elisha Abbo.
Owolabi, from Ekiti State, was an official photojournalist to former Ekiti
State governor, Ayodele Fayose in 2014. He rendered an account of his chilling
encounter with the Senator.
What was the bone of contention? The Senator refused to pay him for a service
he rendered, Owolabi alleged.
“Senator Ishaku had to be a consultant to Fayose then. After the election, he
saw my tenacity and approached on my job, he approached me to work with him
and I agreed. Then he was aspiring for a senatorial seat under APC in Mubi
North, Adamawa State. We traveled together down to Osun State during Omisore’s
election because he worked with Omisore as a consultant then. We were in
Celebration Hotel for months where I kept recording and doing my job as
usual.”
After the job at Osun, he recalled, the Senator left for Abuja and he had to
join him there.
“I was at his house for almost six months. We lived together. We were working,
travelling down to Yola and back to Abuja.
“We had a contract and I put my proposal to him through his Head of
Administration, Mr Adekoya. The first time we lodged at Lelewa Hotel, Adamawa,
opposite Adamawa Polytechnic. I did my work as usual and we traveled to his
hometown Mushala after Vintim, some kilometers to Cameroon. There I did both
the video and photography for him”.
The second time they traveled together was when the incident happened.
His recollection: “I traveled to Lagos to do some things for him. We were
supposed to go to Abuja together that very day, but on my way, I couldn’t meet
up; my car broke down on the road along Lokoja, so I got to Abuja late. I had
to take a flight from Abuja to Yola. That day was the eve of Boko Haram
invasion of Mubi, so we were supposed to be in Mubi that very day. When we
heard about the news, we couldn’t go, so we lodged at Danzol Hotel in Yola. At
this point, I couldn’t take the risk of Boko Haram, so I decided to leave. I
approached the Senator to ask for part-payment of my money so that I could go
and meet my family and leave that environment. At first, I sent him a text and
he did not respond. I called, but he wouldn’t pick. That day some of his
people that escaped from Boko Haram came from Mubi to meet him at that hotel
and he was giving them money and everything they needed to feel comfortable. I
was frustrated because he refused to pick my calls. So around that 5 pm, I
tried to reach him but I couldn’t. Out of frustration I went and sit at the
doorstep of his room for more than three hours waiting for him to come out and
attend to me. On coming out of his hotel room, he said, “Muyiwa you are
embarrassing me”, and I told him that I wasn’t embarrassing him, but rather
pleading with him to give me my money so that I could go and meet my family.”
At last Owolabi came to the crux of his story: “The next thing he did was to
start beating me. He called his orderly to bundle me out of the Hotel at that
odd hour. The policemen beat the hell out of me that day. They cocked the gun
at me and I said my last prayer. The Senator said that he would tell his
people that I was a Boko Haram. I became afraid because I didn’t understand
their language. There was nobody I could call; I don’t have a family there. I
went there based on my job. That was when I kept quiet. I was just saying my
last prayer and I was asking for mercy from God. One of the policemen told him
that they should take me to Kaliwa District Police station in Yola. We were
there for more than an hour because I did not allow them to take me away from
where people were at that odd hour because I did not know where they were
taking me. So it was around 2 am that they took me there in their pickup van
to the police station. When we got there, there was nobody, no light until one
policeman brought a torch and they told him to put me in a cell. They were
speaking but I did not understand what they were saying because they were
speaking Hausa.”
Did he write any statement at the police station?
He said no, and went on to detail how he was manhandled by the policemen.
“When they were carrying me I was shouting “my ankle. They twisted my neck. I
was in severe pain. They tore my clothes. I had to beg the IPO to help me by
allowing me to use his phone to call one of my relatives because I did not
know anybody there. He obliged and I called one of my brothers who pleaded
that the person should assist me. They knew that his action was wrong but he
is their person and I am a stranger to them, so there was nothing I could do.”
Succour came his way in the morning when the DPO arrived and after listening
to his story, directed that he should be set free.
“Some of the staff that I worked together with came that very morning and they
pitied me when they saw my condition. I was helpless, they tore my clothes,
broke my ankle, they beat me mercilessly with their guns, the slapped me,” he
said.
By Owolabi’s estimate, Senator Abbo owed him N2.8m.
“I did both video and photography. I calculated it per day as we were working
for him. It was during the campaign. We were in Celebration Hotel in Ife for a
month and we worked at Omisore Radio station. These are the things that
accumulated to that amount. His Head of Administration knew about the
contract.”
Out of the N2.8m, Abbo paid only N240, 000, Owolabi claimed.
As to why he decided to bring out the issue now after about five years,
Owolabi explained: “When I saw the video of the lady he beat, I was so furious
that he shouldn’t have gone to that extent. Again, some people were trying to
defend him, so I have to tell them that I too have experienced such a thing
from him and this is my story.”
Asked if he is driven by an ulterior motive, Owolabi said: “I am not
blackmailing him. He can’t deny me. His brothers can’t deny me. I have their
contacts. They have called me time without number today, people that we worked
together. His Personal Assistant, Musa, that we worked together has called me
and said I should ‘die’ down the issue if he tries to pay me.”
Regrettably, the Senator had refused to respond to his efforts to get his
attention. “His people have been calling since I opened up. I don’t know if he
is the one sending them. I have the conversations of one of his staff in Abuja
that is pleading that I shouldn’t have gone too far. He is asking how much I
have to collect, and that they can personally rally the money and pay me
without even involving the Senator”.
What if the Senator had picked his call?
“I wouldn’t have even done this at all if he had responded to my text messages
and phone calls,” he replied. “I pleaded time without number to pay out of the
money. I even sent my wife’s account number for him to at least pay something
into the account so that my wife can use it to take care of the family I left
for months, but he wouldn’t respond to my call”.
He went on:
“It’s not that he does not have money; I can assure you he has money to pay.
After the incident, he called me to meet him in Lokoja. Then he wanted to work
for late
Audu Abubakar. We were in a hotel for two weeks, but I think
Audu Abubakar
did not give him much audience. I thought he wanted to use the avenue to pay
me my money because I wanted to sort it out amicably. My brother wanted to
contact media houses to make it public, but I discovered that if I had made a
move then it would be dangerous for me. Again, I was working with Governor
Fayose back then and it was on the eve of his inauguration, so I discovered
that it might affect so many things.”
What does he want from the Senator––apology or his money?
“I want both,” Owolabi said.
Source: Sun News
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