Natasha: Suspended Kogi senator reveals how she endured Akpabio’s sexual advances

• Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has alleged that her suspension was a nonstop effect of rejecting persistent intersexual advances from Senate President Godswill Akpabio
• The suspended Kogi lawmaker claimed that Akpabio repeatedly told her that she indispensable "please him" to afloat bask her rights and privileges arsenic a senator
• Akpoti-Uduaghan spoke connected Wednesday, successful an interrogation granted to a British British tv station, wherever she compared her attraction to antheral senators

Legit.ng journalist Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering political parties and movements.

The suspended lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has narrated however she spent implicit a twelvemonth enduring the alleged intersexual advances of Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

Natasha speaks connected however she endured Akpabio’s alleged intersexual advances. Photo credit: Nigerian Senate
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The legislator reiterated during the interrogation with the fashionable British television station, Sky News, connected Wednesday, March 19, wherever she reiterated that her suspension was a nonstop effect of her outcry against Akpabio’s alleged intersexual harassment and not the gross misconduct the Senate reported.

According to Akpoti-Uduaghan, the Senate president continually told her that she indispensable “please him” if she wanted to bask her privileges and perks of bureau arsenic a Senator.

She said:

“I made an allegation of intersexual harassment against the President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, connected March 5, 2025, and the precise adjacent day, I was suspended for six months. I judge my suspension is illegal, unjust, and conscionable a mode of silencing me.“I experienced intersexual harassment implicit the past twelvemonth successful the hands of the Senate President, and this intersexual harassment, due to the fact that I refused to output to his demands, turned into malice whereby my rights and privileges arsenic a legislator were deprived.“I recovered the courageousness to talk up; yes, the breaking constituent was moving maine from that seat; I person had to endure a full batch successful silence.”

Natasha condemns unequal attraction successful Senate

Natasha alleges sex bias successful Senate led by Akpabio. Photo credit: Nigerian Senate
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To further backmost up her claim, the Kogi legislator recalled that she has witnessed immoderate antheral colleagues fighting, screaming, and insulting 1 different with nary authorisation meted out.

As reported by The Punch, Akpoti-Uduaghan argued that utilizing her arsenic a scapegoat lone reflects the hypocrisy and treble standards successful the Senate.

She said:

“I person seen successful that enclosure wherever men fight, wherever Senators propulsion items astatine each other, curse each other, outcry astatine each other, but they were not suspended. Why? Because they were men. Things got hard for me; I was ever complaining.“My hubby would really locomotion up to him due to the fact that they are friends, saying, ‘My woman has a precise important bill, her constituency needs this, wherefore don’t you springiness her a accidental to speak? And helium would archer me, ‘Next time. So helium deliberately kept connected denying maine this.“Each clip I walked to him he’d archer me, ‘Right present I americium the main presiding serviceman of the National Assembly, truthful you person to delight me, marque maine blessed to get these privileges.’ And that happened respective times due to the fact that I refused. It developed into malice. Which different mode was I expected to marque my dependable heard?”

Legit.ng earlier besides reported that Senate President Godswill Akpabio accused Akpoti-Uduaghan of distorting the facts and misrepresenting the Senate connected the planetary scene.

Akpabio commented portion speaking aft the senators passed a ballot of assurance connected him during plenary connected Thursday, March 13.

The Kogi Central senator, who was suspended for six months for violating the Senate rules, reported Akpabo and the Senate, alleging that she was sexually harassed.

Her quality arsenic a impermanent connected Sky News comes hardly 1 week after Akpoti-Uduaghan's appeal astatine the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) was acknowledged by its president, Tulia Ackson.

Read much astir Senate, Akpabio and Akpoti-Uduaghan saga:

• “Senate is similar a cult”: Natasha shares instances of alleged intersexual harassment by Akpabio
• Alleged intersexual harassment: Ebira women hail Nwebonyi’s testimony, accidental Akpabio is vindicated

Natasha saga: Court backs Senate’s disciplinary process

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the Federal High Court successful Abuja gave a caller order connected the Nigerian Senate's disciplinary process against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

The judge, Obiora Egwuatu, lifted its earlier injunction restraining the Senate from suspending the Kogi Central Senator.

The FCT precocious tribunal cleared the mode for the Senate’s disciplinary process against Akpoti-Uduaghan implicit alleged misconduct.

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Source: Legit.ng