Senator Ishaku Elisha Abbo on Friday denied the allegation of raping a 13-year-old girl or having been detained by the police over the matter.
Abbo, who represented Adamawa North Senatorial District in the Ninth Senate, said rather, a woman attempted to extort N5million from him with a threat to report him to the police that he had sexually assaulted her daughter should he refuse to give her the money.
He said following the threat, he personally reported the issue to the police who thereafter invited him to substantiate his claim as well as the unnamed woman to defend herself over the allegation.
He said he was neither detained nor slept in a police cell as reported by a section of the media.
An online media on Thursday reported that Abbo had surrendered himself to the Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) in Abuja after being accused of raping a 13-year-old secondary school student.
The report claimed that the parents of the minor allegedly told journalists that another popular former Senator from Adamawa had visited their home to plead with them not to disclose the scandal.
According to the report, the parents of the said girl further alleged that after the incident, Abbo repeatedly sent money to the victim’s father in what they described as an attempt to suppress the matter.
The alleged rape reportedly took place on June 29, 2025, at Abbo’s residence in Katampe, Abuja.
However, Abbo denied the allegation and described the report as baseless, unfounded, mischievous and fake news.
Senator Abbo, who reacted in a telephone conversation with some journalists covering the Senate, said he was in his Abuja residence (Katampe Extension) throughout Thursday and not at the FCID, Abuja.
‘The said report is the 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 to the police a case of attempted blackmail and extortion by a woman who allegedly demanded that he should give her N5million or be reported to the police for alleged sexual assault against her daughter.
‘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 a completely different story several weeks after now.
‘The report that I raped a girl and that I was detained at the FCID is baseless, mischievous and fake,’ he said.