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More trouble for s3x toy ex-senator Elisha Abbo as police raid his residence
Police from the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) in Abuja searched the Katampe residence of former Senator Elisha Abbo, who is accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old secondary school student and attempting to assault her 16-year-old sister in the Federal Capital Territory.
A petition submitted by D.I. Aiyedun & Co. to the Inspector General of Police, according to reports, alleges that Abbo not only committed these assaults but also intimidated the victims and their family.
The search took place shortly after Abbo was briefly detained and released on bail on Friday, reportedly due to intervention by influential political figures.
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A source stated, “When the detectives arrived at his home, the minor and her family members were also present. They reportedly found Senator Abbo calmly seated in his living room, a free man despite the seriousness of the allegations.”
During the visit, Abbo’s wife acknowledged knowing the minor and heard her describe the specific location in the house where the alleged assault occurred.
However, Mrs. Abbo reportedly accused the minor of stealing her gold jewelry, escalating the situation, according to SaharaReporters.
The detectives had the minor’s family sign documents before leaving. The petition, addressed to the Deputy Commissioner of Police – Gender at the FCID, details a disturbing account of abuse and threats allegedly perpetrated by Abbo and his associates against 13-year-old Khadija Muhammad and her 16-year-old sister, Fatima Muhammad.
Abbo surrendered to the FCID following the petition. The victims’ parents claimed that Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed “Binani,” a former senator and Adamawa governorship candidate, visited their home to urge them to keep the matter quiet.
They also alleged that Abbo sent money to the girls’ father to suppress the issue.The petition states that the primary incident occurred on June 29, 2025, at Abbo’s residence in Katampe Extension. Khadija was allegedly lured there by Nafisa Mohammed Chigli, a 17-year-old associate of Abbo.
“The suspect attempted to undress her, overpowered her resistance, applied baby oil to his manhood, and attempted to forcibly penetrate her vagina,” the petition states.
It adds, “After the act, he cleaned his semen-soaked genitals with a white cloth. She later informed her father of the horrific assault, but who blamed her and took no action.”
Fatima was allegedly targeted in a similar scheme by Zara Muhammad Chigli but escaped before the assault could be completed.
“In a nearly identical scheme, the victim’s sister, Fatima Muhammad, was lured to the suspect’s residence by Zara Muhammad Chigli,” the petition notes.
“The suspect attempted to sexually assault her as well. She managed to escape the situation before the assault could be completed, but the attempt itself is a grave crime that demonstrates a repeated pattern of predatory behaviour.”
Evidence includes a medical report from Deda Hospital, signed by Dr. Kehinde Duromola, dated July 11, 2025, noting bruising consistent with sexual assault. The report for Khadija, hospital number 31161, states, “Patient presented to our facility on 10th of July, 2025 with complaint of rape following a visit to a friend’s house about a week earlier. On examination, she was found to be anxious.”
It further notes a “bruise around the posterior fourchette,” with the gynecologist stating, “impression of sexual assault cannot be ruled out.”
Additional evidence includes a N200,000 transfer on July 1, 2025, from Hassan Kure Musa, an associate of Abbo, to the victim’s father’s driver, cited as a bribery attempt.
A video from the car ride home after the incident is reportedly in the victim’s possession.The petition highlights Khadija’s severe psychological trauma, including suicidal thoughts, as documented in emails to her school coach.
The coach noted, “From the time of the attack until now, the child has been suffering from various persistent illnesses that doctors have not been able to diagnose, which are consistent with the somatic manifestations of severe psychological trauma.”
They added, “She is severely traumatised and has not been able to associate well with her friends, leading to complete social withdrawal.”
Khadija wrote, “I feel worthless, unloved, invisible and so alone… I feel trapped in my own mind, my own pain and it’s exhausting just to exist.”
She also confessed, “I’m having suicidal thoughts I don’t know how much longer I can keep going… I feel like I’m drowning in everything that has happened… I feel like im a burden and think that everyone is better off without me.”
The petition alleges Abbo threatened to release nude photos of Khadija and made death threats against her and her mother.
Abbo has a history of controversy, including an arrest for assaulting a vendor at a sex shop in Abuja and accusations of blackmailing a married woman with a sex tape.
He was removed from the Senate in October 2023 after a court declared his election invalid.
Buildings seized for being used as havens for criminal activities are now to be converting to police bases or residences, instead of demolishing them, if the new proposal by the Anambra State Police Command, sails through.
Ikioye Orutugu, Commissioner of Police, who canvassed for the new arrangement on Wednesday, told reporters that it made more sense putting such buildings to good use than pulling them down or setting them ablaze.
The police boss spoke against the backdrop of the burning down of big edifice in Nkpo, a community in Idemili North Local Government to the state, said to have provided a base for criminals and hideout for kidnappers, as part of the major breakthroughs by the command in recent times.
Three kidnap people including a medical doctor, were said to have been smoked out from the building, which was instantly torched in line with the Anambra State 2025 Homeland Security Laws, which empowers the state government to demolish any property used for or suspected to be proceeds of crime.
Against the backdrop of the number of buildings that had previously been pulled down, and the empty land taken over as government properties, the police boss, said it was not the best thing to do, insisting that the government should rather acquire such buildings and designate them as police posts or residences of police personnel.
Reeling out the streak of successes recorded in recent times in the state, the police boss, said they included the arrest of kidnappers, cultists, armed robbers, child traffickers, sexual predators, separatist agitators and other criminal elements.
Citing one of them as “the strategic clearance operation on 7th May 2026 in Owerre-Ezukala, Orumba South Local Government Area, he said: “Recall that the camp was earlier destroyed by a Joint Security Team. Before the confession, one Nnamdi Nkemdilim Ogbonna, male, aged 37 years, allegedly one of the top commanders of the proscribed secessionists group, is in custody as well as intelligence received overtime points on how some escaped gang members were attempting to regroup.
“The offensive operation led to the recovery of one General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) with about 2,000 rounds of live chain ammunition, two fabricated rocket launchers with 25 propellers, 10 locally made Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), one locally made Beretta pistol, two pump-action guns, three hand grenades, 10 rounds of K2 live ammunition, one gas cylinder and one black Ecolac box.
“The operatives also dislodged the armed criminals and sustained operational dominance in the area to prevent any regrouping. We remain committed to sustaining ongoing operations against all forms of criminality and ensuring the safety and security of Anambra people.”
The door is now shut permanently in the face of the Federal Government towards taking up the 12.5 – being the remainder of its proposed 20 per cent stake in the Dangote Refineries, Africa’s first privately owned concern.
That means the government would now be stuck with the 7.5 per cent only it was able to pick up and which it currently holds in the $20 billion, 650 barrels per day capacity refinery, which came into operation in 2023 as the concern is insisting it is no longer interested in the remaining 12.5 per cent stake.
Instead of the government, the organisation, currently responsible for the supply of the major chunk of petroleum products in Nigeria and many parts of Africa, is now planning to bring in ordinary Nigerians into the mix to lap up the stake in the near future.
Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group, who made the revelation, Nicolai Tangen, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), that the group had since rejected requests by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, to increase its 7.25 per cent stake in the firm.
The PUNCH, quoted the African Richest Man (ARM), as saying in the interview that the NNPC’s offer to increase its 7.25 per cent stake in the refinery was rejected because the company Dangote was planning to go public and give other Nigerians the opportunity to own shares in the plant.
Dangote had revealed that after acquiring the original 7.5 per cent in 2021, for $1bn, with an option to acquire the remaining 12.75 per cent stake by June 2024, NNPC Limited began to stall, and ended up reneging on its decision.
However, the national oil company had made attempts to acquire more stakes in the refinery, since that, but this was turned down, adding that the biggest risks the business could face were either civil war and government policy inconsistencies.
Hear him: “Actually, if there are civil wars, which is not in the offing at all. The other biggest risk is government inconsistencies in policies, and we are addressing that one because if you look at our refinery, the national oil company already owns 7.25 per cent, and they are trying to buy more. We are the ones that said no; we want to now spread it and have everybody be part of it.”
Dangote, had in 2014, informed Nigerians on how, Mele Kyari, former Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (GMD-CEO), had reduced NNPC’s stake in the refinery from 20 per cent to 7.25 per cent.
He had said then: “The agreement was actually 20 per cent, which we had with NNPC, and they did not pay the balance of the money up until last year; then we gave them another extension up until June (2024), and they said that they would remain where they had already paid, which is 7.2 per cent. So NNPC owns only 7.2 per cent, not 20 per cent.
The business mogul, who painted a seducing picture of what is at stake in the new opportunities, including the provision of getting dividends in foreign currencies, told his Norwegian host: “What we are announcing is that when you invest in any of our businesses going forward, in cement or in the refinery, in petrochemicals, in fertiliser, we guarantee to pay you a dividend in dollars because we are very well into exports. 80 per cent of our revenue will be in dollars.”
Explaining how he sourced funds for building the refinery, from various financial institutions, including Nigerian banks, he said the initial plan was to fund most of the construction work from our internally generated funds, but because of naira devaluation, the group had to rely on Afreximbank, Africa Finance Corporation, Zenith Bank, Access Bank, UBA and a couple of the local banks.
“But of course we also have a very good relationship with the Standard Bank of South Africa and, at the beginning, Standard Chartered Bank of the UK. We were lucky and what happened when the plant was completed turned out to be much more than our own expectations.”
The coast has brightened for Siminalayi Fubara, Governor of Rivers State, having been given the opportunity of obtaining the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket for next year’s governorship election, contrary to reports in some quarters that he has been denied.
Vanguard reports that he was one of the 30 governors cleared by the party’s screening committee, including Hope Uzodimma of Imo, a two-term governor, who is currently eyeing a seat at the Senate.
Others cleared, included Sarafadeen Alli, former Secretary to the Oyo State Government (SSG), for the 2027, the report said, quoting sources, who revealed that the screening report was yet to be released due to a deluge of petitions flooding the party.
To beat the deadline by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for the submission of the list of the names of successful candidates, the party said it now would publish the names of cleared aspirants on May 13.
Regarding the dithering on the release of the 2,980, comprising of one aspirants for one presidential slot, 28 governorship, 109 Senate, 360 House of Representatives, and 991 state assembly positions, a source was quoted as saying: “We are still working on the screening report to make sure everything goes well. The day is not over yet.
“We received many petitions from the eight panels that conducted the primaries. For instance, one of the panels received 10 petitions and the petitions have to be treated on their merit.”
Regarding the fate of Fubara, the source was quoted as saying the governor, whose tenure has been dogged by much of internal and external battles even after joining the APC last year, the source confirmed that he was not disqualified as speculated.
His words: “Nooo! No governor has been booted out. The party has always supported its governors. Some of them like Uzodimma got automatic clearance. To ensure we have a united front in 2027, we are working towards consensus but where that fails, direct primaries will be held in accordance with the Electoral Act. We know some of the high-profile aspirants don’t want to consent, and are ready to go to court. We don’t want that.”
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