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<\/p>\nThe Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmaker, who is the youngest Senator in the ninth National Assembly, was seen in a 10-minute video footage repeatedly slapping a woman, after she pleaded with him not to physically assault the shop owner whom the senator had accused of calling him a drunk.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the incident, Dabiri-Erewa tweeted, \u201cTo think that this PDP guy was said to have \u2018defeated\u2019 one of our most respected female parliamentarians, Senator Binta Masi Garba. The Senate must not protect him. He should be charged . The footage is enough evidence . He deserves to be in Prison.\u201d<\/p>\n
This reaction angered some social media users, who accused her of having shown no empathy for the woman who was attacked and being insensitive.<\/p>\n
@ChiomaChuka wrote, \u201cShame that your response has NO empathy for the woman, just a slant across political lines.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s an entire season of #Ganduje videos, not a peep from you. But, PDP, and you\u2019ve found your voice!<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved you as a journalist, but I hate what you\u2019ve become as a politician. Sad.\u201d<\/p>\n
@exclusiveboobs, \u201cThis is who she always was. Politics only brought out her real personality. Shame.\u201d<\/p>\n
@Nwaonyekuzi, \u201cThat is yet to make any impact as a leader. She is busy playing politics at expense of quality leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n
@Samuelbodunde, \u201cIt\u2019s a very big irony. So easy for them to be political, no human empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n
@ceetyna001, \u201cQuite sad\u2026<\/p>\n
@abikedabiri is an example of the kind of woman we don\u2019t want\/need in politics. She was definitely more useful to everybody as a journalist.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oseuntadef, \u201cThat\u2019s to show how fake she is. This politician is her true colour.\u201d<\/p>\n
@Yusufwrites, \u201cYou have earned my respect with this reply. Everything shouldn\u2019t be about politics. Humanity comes first. Shame on Abike.\u201d<\/p>\n
@Lewisih, \u201cVery well put. In matters that touch the core of our existence and humanity, it behoves on us to fly above the fray of politics and speak without prejudice, moreso, when in the public eye and likely seen as behavioral model. Political Abike\u2019s one of great disappointment.\u201d<\/p>\n
@BusolaDavid, \u201cThank you Chioma! You\u2019ve said all I\u2019ve had In mind since she started misbehaving. I loved her as a journalist too, this terrible side of hers is painful to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
@Ngozibekee, \u201cI wish she can understand that money doesn\u2019t clean bad behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n
@classicdilla, \u201cI guess this is the real Abike Dabiri. The journalist was just a decoy.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s Senior Special Adviser on Diaspora Matters, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has come under fire over her reaction to the viral video of Senator Elisha Abbo\u2019s assault on a lady in Abuja. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmaker, who is the youngest Senator in the ninth National Assembly, was seen in a 10-minute video footage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7484,10936,12618,58],"class_list":["post-132683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-abike-dabiri-erewa","tag-binta-garba","tag-elisha-abbo","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}