Former lawmaker representing Adamawa North Senatorial District, Senator Ishaku Abbo, has denied reports linking him to the rape of a 13-year-old secondary school student in June, 2025.
Some media platforms (not LEADERSHIP) had on Thursday, reported that the former lawmaker was apprehended by the Police over the alleged rape following accusation against him by the mother of the allegedly raped teenager.
However, in a swift reaction on Friday in Abuja, Senator Abbo refuted the allegation in its entirety, describing it as baseless, unfounded and mischievous.
Senator Abbo who reacted through telephone conversation with some journalists covering the Senate, said he was in his Abuja residence throughout Thursday and not in police custody .
“The said report is handiwork of my political detractors. It is an orchestrated smear campaign to disturb my peace by political enemies”, he said.
He, however, admitted that he recently reported a desperate move by someone he called a female money monger to the Police who he said requested for N5million from him.
“I personally reported the desperate female money monger to the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), where both of us were later invited for questioning, only for me to be reading or hearing completely different story several weeks after now”, he said.
Speculations surfaced online on Thursday alleging that the ex-lawmaker was in police custody following accusations that he sexually assaulted a minor at his Katampe, Abuja residence on June 29, 2025.
The victim’s family also claimed that Senator Abbo repeatedly tried to silence them by sending money to the girl’s father, and further alleged that Senator Aishatu Binani, the 2023 Adamawa governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), visited them to dissuade them from pursuing the case.
