Nigeria, Nov. 19 -- The Magistrate Court in Zuba, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Tuesday admitted three documents as exhibits tendered against Elisha Abbo, the Nigerian senator caught on camera assaulting a woman in Abuja.

The senator, who represents Adamawa North senatorial district, was arraigned at the Magistrate Court in Zuba, Abuja, after a video showed him physically assaulting a lady went viral.

Calls for Mr Abbo to be arrested and prosecuted intensified following this newspaper's publication of the video.

Mr Abbo's trial began on July 8 at the court where he was granted bail with a bond of N5 million.

At the resumed hearing on Tuesday, the prosecution lawyer, James Idachaba, called his second witness, Mary Daniel, an assis...