Some senators should wear prison uniforms – Natasha slams colleagues

• Suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan accused Senate President Akpabio of utilizing idiosyncratic vendetta to soundlessness her
• She insists her suspension was ruled unconstitutional by a Federal High Court and calls the process fraudulent and oppressive
• Denied introduction into the chambers, Natasha vows ineligible enactment portion urging much Nigerians to situation injustice successful politics

Suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of starring a idiosyncratic run to soundlessness her aft she spoke retired astir intersexual harassment wrong the Senate.

Speaking to journalists extracurricular the locked gates of the National Assembly connected Tuesday, Akpoti-Uduaghan argued that her suspension was declared amerciable by a Federal High Court and maintained she remains a duly elected legislator representing her constituents.

Natasha argued that her suspension was owed to her intersexual harassment allegations. Photo: FB/Natasha Akpoti
Source: Facebook

Referencing Justice Binta Nyako’s ruling which described her suspension arsenic excessive and unconstitutional, she said:

“What happened is that Senator Akpabio himself, arsenic an individual, took the National Assembly, the Senate, the Clerk, and the Ethics Committee to court. That’s important to clarify. There’s nary ineligible ground for maine not to resume today.”

Nyako had noted that since lawmakers are required to be astatine slightest 181 days of plenary annually, denying her that close efficaciously silenced an full constituency.

Natasha rubbished documents

Akpoti-Uduaghan further dismissed the papers that recommended her suspension arsenic “merely a photocopied attendance expanse of the Ethics Committee,” questioning the credibility of the full process.

She pointed to the timing of her suspension — conscionable a time aft submitting a intersexual harassment petition — arsenic grounds of targeted persecution.

“Why was I suspended a time aft I submitted a intersexual harassment petition? Why the changeless attacks, threats, and adjacent a fraudulent callback attempt?” she asked.

Akpabio worst legislator NASS ever had - Natasha

Criticising Akpabio’s enactment style, the legislator described it arsenic the “worst the Senate has ever had,” likening it to that of a “third-term governor” who stifles absorption done fear.

Natasha was reportedly denied entree into the Nigeria Senate building. Photo: FB/Natasha Akpoti
Source: Facebook

“When I challenged him connected the floor, it wasn’t conscionable an outburst—it was a outcry from enduring a twelvemonth of organization oppression,” she said, adding that galore senators present hesitate to talk freely nether his leadership.

The embattled legislator besides revealed that determination are presently 2 national transgression cases against her, which she dismissed arsenic baseless and aimed astatine intimidation.

“I’m not connected proceedings for corruption, embezzlement, cause trafficking, oregon murder,” she said.“Meanwhile, immoderate of the witnesses against maine person files astatine the EFCC for looting nationalist funds. If our institutions were working, they would beryllium successful jail, not successful the Senate.”

Despite being denied introduction into the chambers and warned by Senate officials to enactment distant until definite conditions are met, Akpoti-Uduaghan vowed to proceed her ineligible fight.

“We whitethorn caput to the appellate tribunal for a clearer interpretation, but arsenic acold arsenic I’m concerned, I americium nary longer suspended,” she said.

Natasha ignores senate’s condition

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that successful a trending video, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan announced her plans to resume legislative duties connected Tuesday, July 8, aft the Federal High Court ruled successful her favour.

The Federal High Court successful Abuja held that her six-month suspension was excessive and unconstitutional, thereby ordering her reinstatement.

Despite the tribunal ruling, the Senate led by Godswill Akpabio insisted that Akpoti-Uduaghan indispensable comply with definite conditions.

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Source: Legit.ng