Top analyst reacts as Natasha announces plan to release 'strong evidence' against Akpabio

• PDP chieftain Dare Glintstone Akinniyi has advised Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan not to merchandise grounds of alleged intersexual harassment by Senate President Godswill Akpabio
• In an interrogation with Legit.ng, the PDP National Youth Group spokesperson urged Natasha to hold until the Senate decides connected her six-month suspension earlier making the determination
• Akinniyi besides voiced concerns arsenic INEC dismissed the callback petition against Natasha, but her petitioners insisted that the Kogi legislator indispensable beryllium replaced successful the Red Chamber

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Youth Group spokesperson, Dare Glintstone Akinniyi, has urged Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan not to present grounds of alleged intersexual harassment by Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

PDP chieftain speaks with Legit.ng arsenic Natasha hints astatine dropping beardown grounds against Akpabio. Photo credit: Natasha H Akpoti, Nigerian Senate
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In an exclusive interrogation with Legit.ng connected Sunday, April 6, 2025, Akinniyi urged Akpoti-Uduaghan to support the grounds and hold for the decisions of the Senate aft the expiration of her six-month suspension.

Legit.ng reported that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) dismissed the recall petition against the Kogi Central lawmaker, stating it failed to conscionable law requirements.

Undeterred by the stalled recall, immoderate residents of Kogi Central senatorial territory vowed connected Thursday, April 3, ne'er to backmost down connected the process to callback Senator Natasha from the National Assembly. They insisted that they would fine-tune the process.

Reacting, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan reaffirmed her committedness to pursuing justness implicit what she described arsenic intersexual harassment by Godswill Akpabio.

Natasha: Akinniyi describes callback arsenic governmental joke

Speaking exclusively with Legit.ng connected the matter, PDP chieftain Dare Glintstone Akinniyi described the APC’s callback run against Senator Natasha arsenic a “joke” designed to derail her increasing power successful Kogi state.

The PDP younker spokesperson commended Natasha’s courageousness and resilience successful confronting governmental victimisation.

Akinniyi told Legit.ng that:

"Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan is simply a grassroot person successful the Kogi authorities - she has contested elections, winning immoderate and did suffer immoderate successful the past. It is comic however APC and their mercenaries are moving circular the timepiece to perpetuate an intolerable task. The callback process was sponsored and ill-conceived by APC - thing but a joke."Senator Natasha has done exceedingly good for his constituents. She has the close to protestation if her rights arsenic a Senator and arsenic a Citizen is threatened. Why volition she enactment quiescent and calm erstwhile she is being victimized due to the fact that she refuses to succumb to intersexual advances, arsenic she claimed?"She utilized the accidental of that 'change of seat' to thrust location her points and plights. For those who were sponsored and are hellhole bent connected the Recall, they should travel the existent processes and not mendacious declaration and signatures collection.'INEC successful its contented didn't judge the petition arsenic they past merit and didn't fulfill the law mandate and requirements needed to callback a legislator. The organizers of the callback run against Sen. Natasha did a atrocious job, and it won't fly.

Why Natasha should withhold grounds against Akpabio

PDP chieftain explains wherefore Natasha should not driblet grounds against Akpabio. Photo credit: Natasha H Akpoti
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Additionally, Akinniyi maintained that revealing grounds of harassment could beryllium almighty but recommended withholding it until the Senate's last determination is announced, aft her six months' suspension.

The PDP chieftain stated thus:

"Her volition of releasing evidences of his allegations — I deliberation this volition prevention everyone's clip and the accused idiosyncratic tin support himself legally. However, connected the different end, I volition counsel her to support those evidences to bosom and hold for the decisions of the Senate leadership, aft the expiration of her amerciable suspension."It's evident they wanted to unopen her disconnected and needfully not funny successful her allegations oregon the probe of the issues connected the array for discussion. I respect her tenacity and bravery successful swimming done this murky h2o of politics."

Read much astir Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan here:

• Breaking: Court bars parties from granting interviews successful Natasha’s lawsuit against Akpabio
• Kogi legislator Natasha yet opens up connected Sallah visit, silences critics: “It was not a campaign”
• Natasha apologises to Oby Ezekwesili implicit clash with Nwaebonyi, “Sorry for the insults”

Recall: Natasha warns Akpabio, acknowledgment INEC

In different development, Legit.ng reported that Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan thanked INEC, arsenic the electoral committee rejected her callback implicit a deficiency of law compliance.

Natasha, who is presently nether a six-month suspension from the Senate implicit a deficiency of adherence to rules, warned Akpabio and ex-Gov Yahaya Bello.

Recall that Natasha precocious accused the Senate president of intersexual harassment and vowed that his and Bello's clip successful politics is numbered.

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Source: Legit.ng