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Natasha Akpoti: My suspension was scripted | Akpabio angered by my access to Tinubu

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, senator representing Kogi central, says her suspension from the national assembly was based on a pre-written script and driven by political motives.

Speaking during an interview with Adeola Fayehun, a US-based Nigerian journalist, Akpoti-Uduaghan said the March 6 incident was not spontaneous, but part of a “calculated plan”.

She said the claim that she disrupted proceedings over her seat was false.

“The impression being circulated is that I caused a scene over my seat. That is false,” she said.

“I raised a matter of privilege under chapter 4, Item 9b of the senate rules — a provision that demands immediate attention.

“But the senate president cut me off, ordered the sergeant-at-arms to remove me, and directed the clerk to begin preparing my suspension letter. That wasn’t a reaction; it was a pre-written script.”

She accused Godswill Akpabio, the senate president, of abusing his office by unilaterally ordering her removal from the chamber.

“He has no authority to unilaterally suspend any senator on the floor. The way he handled it — like I was a staff member in his living room — was not only unlawful but also degrading,” she said.

“My reaction was in response to a decision he had clearly already made.”

Akpoti-Uduaghan said her suspension followed a formal petition she submitted against the senate leadership the day before.

“I believe my suspension was retaliatory. The ethics report they cited was merely a smokescreen. I had submitted allegations that shook the system, and the next day, I was silenced,” she said.


The lawmaker also addressed an allegation by Sandra Duru, who claimed the senator was trying to bring down the government led by someone from the south-west.

Akpoti-Uduaghan denied the allegation and said she is not driven by ethnic sentiments.

“People who know me know that I am not a tribalist. I respect and appreciate every tribe in Nigeria, every ethnicity,” she said.

“I am half Nigerian and half Ukrainian — who am I to talk about tribe when I am actually one part of the other world? That is not my nature; that is not my language.”


She alleged that Duru’s remarks were sponsored by political interests threatened by her wide .

“If anybody said that, it’s probably her team, the people who have sponsored her,” she said.


“Her sponsors are the ones who have probably put those words to her because they knew that I had enjoyed a lot of from Nigerians — not just in Kogi state, but across the country and even in the diaspora.”

Akpoti-Uduaghan claimed her cordial relationship with President Bola Tinubu angered the senate president.

“The senate president, Godswill Akpabio, also knows that I enjoyed a good relationship with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” she said.

“I have not said it in the open before, but I am saying it now, and that actually annoyed him because there was a time when the senate president told my husband, ‘Are you aware that your wife goes to see the President?’ and my husband told him he was aware.

“Whenever I have critical issues to raise — like before I brought up the issue of probing Ajaokuta — I did meet with Mr President to make sure he knew the nature of it, and he was okay with it. For other matters too, I have met him in person.

“So, I do not have a hostile relationship with the president, even though I am in the opposition. I keep saying, the good people of Kogi central voted me as a senator to work, not to antagonise or create enmity.

“I want the people to know my issue is with the senate president — not the entire senate, the Nigerian people, the institutions, or the presidency.”

Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended from the senate for alleged gross misconduct following her seating arrangement altercation with Akpabio.

The lawmaker said she believed her suspension was illegal, unjust and a way of silencing her.

She also rejected the senate’s position that she was not suspended over her sexual harassment claim against Akpabio.

https://www.thecable.ng/natasha-akpoti-my-suspension-was-scripted-akpabio-angered-by-my-access-to-tinubu/

It is no longer Sexual Harassment?

And don't you think if your closeness to Tinubu is of any benefit, the President could have intervened in your matter?
Same Tinubu you call his Government Yoruba Government?

the bible, in ecc.7 vs 26. efers to a woman to be more bitter than death.this is the kind of woman its reffering to. bitter serpentious woman. till date, no proof of sexual allegation. what fruit did all the toil around the word granting press statement yield .

Nifemy4:
the bible, in ecc.7 vs 26. efers to a woman to be more bitter than death.this is the kind of woman its reffering to. bitter serpentious woman. till date, no proof of sexual allegation. what fruit did all the toil around the word granting press statement yield .

That bitterness is an illness that afflicts many women when the reach 60 years old and are showing clear signs of high mileage

Same Tinubu sue u, his wife no talk or fight on Ur behalf? My dear?? Find where to sit down?

This woman again...drama queen

O

I hope this woman is mentally ok sha..

This woman husband dey try

This woman again. Cho cho expert.

It's not sexual again, now it's access....hmmmm

blamingthedevil:
Natasha Akpoti: My suspension was scripted | Akpabio angered by my access to Tinubu


https://www.thecable.ng/natasha-akpoti-my-suspension-was-scripted-akpabio-angered-by-my-access-to-tinubu/

We go know soon enough

i dey suspect this woman na just noise

Natachochocho

CommonSense1967:
This woman again. Cho cho expert.

It's not sexual again, now it's access....hmmmm

Leave her for us, we Obidients like her. She's fighting for a better Nigeria for you with her unsubstantiated sexual allegation

Some people aren't supposed to be Senators if they can't control their emotions.

Maybe she wan accuse tinubu again

Omote na akpa. So it’s no longer rape and now jealousy. Werey re o

PDPdestroyer:

Leave her for us, we Obidients like her. She's fighting for a better Nigeria for you

No wahala

This woman

Quarterpast:
I hope this woman is mentally ok sha..

Exactly. I have always believed Natasha is not mentally and psychologically stable

No doubt something is wrong

This woman is not genuine or serious and this should be a big lesson and a big shame to all those who ed her and threw away common sense.

Once again, Natasha or whatever you call yourself, you were suspended because you refused to sit in your seat and instead made a scene the whole world saw, over a seat!!

We should learn to listen to our elders when they talk. There were concrete reasons why Senator Kingibe and all the other women in the Senate did not her and made it clear she was at fault for not obeying the rules, which she had done severally.

She thinks the rest of Nigeria is her rural backwater town in Kogi where people worship her because she is a half caste and can have any man she wants..... nonsense upon ingredient!

Na stubborn SS men fit her sef, thats probably why she used all legal means possible to force this her current husband to marry her after in her own words "enjoying her anyhow and then trying to chop and clean mouth"

Mumu woman

hmm

Dis our country get as e be

Another twist

I love this woman, but I need to see evidence of that sexual harassment