Now firing on all cylinders, the suspended Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has taken her sexual harassment allegations against Senate President Godswill Akpabio to the global stage.
There is confirmation that the embattled lawmaker has tabled her plight at the Women in Parliament session held at the Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting (IPU) at the United Nations in New York.
According to Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, she is seeking justice and the intervention of global democratic institutions in addressing her case.
Also describing her suspension from the Senate as illegal, the Senator further expressed fears that indications have emerged she may be held against her will by “the powers that be” from Nigeria for speaking up in New York.
The current face-off between the Senate President, Akpabio and Akpoti-Uduaghan took another dramatic turn on Thursday, 6th March 2025, when the upper Legislative Chamber slammed a six-month suspension on the Kogi Central Senator for accusing the Senate President of sexual harassment and abuse of office.
Despite Akpabio’s spirited denials of the sexual harassment allegations against him, Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan has already gone ahead slammed a N100 billion defamation suit on the Senate President.
Following the dismissal of her sexual harassment and abuse of office petition against Akpabio, on Wednesday, 5th March 2025, by the Senate Committee which declared it “dead on arrival” based on procedural violations and legal constraints, the female Senator on Thursday, 6th March re-submitted the petition, insisting that all conditions have been duly complied with.
