As reactions continue to trail the viral video of Senator Elisha Abbo representing Adamawa North Senatorial Districts in the red chamber for assaulting a women, a coalition of Civil Society Groups, has commended the swiftness with which the Senator apologise for the wrong done while raising questions on the Senate’ leadership silence on cases concerning two other Senators with worst case of moral issues.
In a press conference addressed Sunday in Abuja by the President Kingsley Nwagwu and secretary general Abubakar Ibrahim, they said “Abbo should be commended for tendering apology without been forced or compelled”, adding that it is a sign of good leadership quality.
The group said rather than being victimise, he should be emulated by others who would never apologise or show remorsefulness even when caught pant down.
“We have watched with keen interest several comments credited to several commentators on the alleged assault video released by an online platform involving Sen. Elisha Abbo, with most calling him out along partisan basis. This we outrightly condemned as we have long expected a better robust angle to it.
“He swiftly responded to the alleged tape and tendered an open apology on the subject matter without been forced or compelled to do so. This act alone of accepting the wrongs allegedly said to have been committed without been compelled to is a clear indication that we now have a new set of Nigeria Leaders in the new generations of political class coming up now unlike the older generation who has never deemed it fit to apologize nor retract wrongs done at a point in time.
“We thus see this act as a good sense of humor that should be acknowledged and urge others that have afflicted our common heritage at a time to come up and tender public apology. This no doubt coming from Senator Abbo is a clear example of new generation of leaders who are not full of themselves nor allow power to intoxicate them,” the group said.
The group said the release of the video was suspicious and that it was done to victimise Abbo because of his minority status in the Red Chamber, saying if those threatening to arrest him are genuinely concern, they should also arrest the Governor of Kano State Abullahi Ganduje and former deputy speaker of Nasarawa State House of Assembly now a Senator, for being caught hands down with somebody’s wife.
