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By Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis


‎The suspended lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has taken her frustration to the popular British television station, Sky News, where she narrated that she spent over a year enduring the alleged sexual advances of Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

The senator reiterated during the interview with the British Television network on Wednesday that her suspension was a direct consequence of her outcry against Akpabio’s alleged sexual harassment and not the gross misconduct the Senate reported.

According to her, the Senate president continually told her that she must “please him” if she wanted to enjoy her privileges and perks of office as a Senator.

She said, “I made an allegation of sexual harassment against the President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, on March 5, 2025, and the very next day, I was suspended for six months. I believe my suspension is illegal, unjust, and just a way of silencing me.

“I experienced sexual harassment over the past year in the hands of the Senate President, and this sexual harassment, because I refused to yield to his demands, turned into malice whereby my rights and privileges as a senator were deprived.

“I found the courage to speak up; yes, the breaking point was moving me from that seat; I have had to endure a whole lot in silence.”

When reminded that the Senate attributed her sanction to gross misconduct, the lawmaker refuted it, saying it was a calculated attempt to silence her.

“Yes, they did mention that I was suspended on grounds of gross misconduct, but can they please provide what the gross misconduct is that amounts to a six-month suspension the day after I submitted a petition? I was suspended because of that petition, not because of any gross misconduct.

“Let’s talk about the gross misconduct that had happened in the Nigerian chambers. I was only told to move, and I refused to move my seat because I deserved to be notified; I deserved to be given a chance to explain why I should retain my seat,” she noted.

To further back up her claim, the Kogi legislator recalled that she has witnessed some male colleagues fighting, screaming, and insulting one another with no sanction meted out.

Akpoti-Uduaghan argued that using her as a scapegoat only reflects the hypocrisy and double standards in the Senate.

She said, “I have seen in that chamber where men fight, where Senators throw items at each other, curse each other, shout at each other, but they were not suspended. Why? Because they were men. Things got difficult for me; I was always complaining.

“My husband would actually walk up to him because they are friends, saying, ‘My wife has a very important bill, her constituency needs this, why don’t you give her a chance to speak? And he would tell me, ‘Next time. So he deliberately kept on denying me this.

“Each time I walked to him he’d tell me, ‘Right here I am the chief presiding officer of the National Assembly, so you have to please me, make me happy to get these privileges.’ And that happened several times because I refused. It developed into malice. Which other way was I supposed to make my voice heard?”

Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended for six months by the House for breaking the Senate rules after she objected to her new sitting arrangement.

Her appearance as a guest on Sky News comes barely one week after she escalated her dispute with Akpabio, presenting her case at a United Nations forum, the International Parliamentary Union, where she alleged political victimisation.

She was suspended on March 6 after a heated confrontation with the Senate leadership over a new seating arrangement, which she claimed was designed to undermine her.

Tensions intensified when the Kogi politician accused Akpabio on Arise TV of punishing her for rejecting his alleged sexual advances.

Speaking at the Women in Parliament session during the Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting at the United Nations in New York, Akpoti-Uduaghan called for international intervention to hold the Nigerian Senate able.

She further decried stringent conditions imposed on her, including withdrawal of security, salary cuts, and a ban from the National Assembly for six months.

https://punchng.com/i-endured-akpabios-sexual-advances-for-over-one-year-natasha/?amp

The one you accused Reno of nko??

Did a video and said it with your full chest that he assaulted you sexually

Senator sexual assault

Ok

How many year did she endure her husband (forceful husband according to her) harassment and blackmailing before she agreed to marry him under forceful condition when she could not meet the 10bilion bail-out cause


After akpabio saga, we will move to Reno saga, then we will conclude the episodes with the oga kpatakpata of them all, which is the husband blackmailing.

Bull.shit

Natasha is a tigress. She is a fearless and relentless fighter. Coming twice to the Senate chamber, boldly, to present and represent her petition was something that scared her fellow senators.

The fact is that every male powerful politician USUALLY and ALWAYS has his way in Nigeria. So, seeing Natasha overstretching her case has become a paradigm shift that nobody is ready for.

- Men are apprehensive and they are like "person no go play with you again".
- Older women are stunned because they are used to tolerating men's overtures and they are wondering why is Natasha is overreacting.
- Younger women have no idea the implications of this fight for their right because there is no other precedence.

The truth is that Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is a change agent and in future, every young attractive female Senator will be treated as a senator and NEVER a piece of **se in the senate.

Politicians are all lairs....Akpabio is a liar, Natasha is a liar.

Akpabio is a man of honor and integrity.

If you endured it for a year then you should have evidence like a secret recording or screen shot to help your case better

Magnetic010:
Politicians are all lairs....Akpabio is a liar, Natasha is a liar.

Don't forget the biggest liar of them all - giringory

She's still on this matter ?

Madam go and marry fubara you are both on 6months parole.

Endurance without evidence na cap...

For you to have been enduring the harrasment you're a learned person it won't cost you much using an eye glass with a cam..


Till now one single ordinary Voice Note we Neva hear...


Abg keep selling your story without evidence to dummy..

Madam, all we need is evidence. All these talk is just grammar. Go and learn from Otedola. He had his evidence against Faruk Lawan & the whole world saw it. Please, do same so we can believe you.

Akpabio is a man of integrity.

She said, “I have seen in that chamber where men fight, where Senators throw items at each other, curse each other, shout at each other, but they were not suspended. Why? Because they were men. Things got difficult for me; I was always complaining.

She made valid points above.

This lady must be a mumu for enduring sexual advances for over a year without making any move to set him up. She can't even put up anything like voice/audio recordings, chatting, video evidence or whatever. SMH

Akpabio is a he-goat, but at this point it is just your words against his. If he had been harassing you for long, why were you celebrating him last year on his birthday as if he were a man of honor? Too many loopholes in your story, madam.

You endured for one year only to voice out at wrong time when you were served punishment for violating senate rule. Why didn't you complain at the right time only to mix it together with your senate rule violation? No one will believe you for voicing out at the wrong time even if the case is true because you see sexual harrasment as your tool to punish men

Wow

I'm not taking the side of Akpabio, but you cannot just come out and claim someone is making sexual advances against you without any credible evidence. Most especially when you have a track record of falsely accusing people in the past of the same offence.

Even if saner climes, Akpabio can sue her for defamation of character. And since she doesn't have any evidence of what she's accusing him of, she'll loose the case.

You don't accuse people without proof. If she felt he was making sexual advances against her, all she needed to do was to record it. We're in the digital age where you can secretly record someone without their knowledge. A credible vido evidence would have gotten the whole world on her side.

Know the truth for yourself.

She broke house rules. She's been punished for it.

The whole sexual abuse angle doesn't factor in.

Despite our reservations, it's safe to approach this form a legal angle.


It's all a charade to distract us from the real issues.

Enough with this b.s. Let us focus on the business of governance.

How long did you endure Reno Omokri's sexual advances, ehh

sreamsense:
You endured for one year only to voice out at wrong time when you were served punishment for violating senate rule. Why didn't you complain at the right time only to mix it together with your senate rule violation? No one will believe you for voicing out at the wrong time even if the case is true because you see sexual harrasment as your tool to punish men

When is the right time to voice out. One would know what people are capable of from their comments. When you find a lot of people who nonsense, just look at their society. A society that has many of such people can never work

Great! You could have ended up with a fifth for a fifth!

Madam go and rest, we don't care. Only ipob and obedients cares.

Bloody blackmailer.

You go explain tire

akpabio was a long and patient striker,but just look at the kind of news coming out of Nigeria