Senator Elisha Abbo's trial at the Zuba Chief Magistrates &rsquo; Court, in Abuja, was stalled today as he failed to appear in court. Abbo is standing trial for assaulting a nursing mother at a sex toy shop in Abuja sometime in May.</p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">At the resumed hearing of the case today, his counsel, Adegbite Adeniyi, told the court that the Senator is ill and could not make it to court today.</p> <blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: 14.5px; border-left: 5px solid #eeeeee; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">&rdquo;My Lord my client is suffering from Acute Febrile (medical term used to describe a sudden fever or elevation in body temperature)&rdquo;&nbsp;he said.</p> </blockquote> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Adeniyi presented a medical report to the court and claimed Abbo was on admission in a hospital in Yola, Adamawa.&nbsp;</p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The Magistrate, Abdullahi Ilelah, adjourned the case until September 24th for hearing.</p>