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Embattled Kogi Central senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of treating her similar a home servant.
The lawmaker made the remarks connected Tuesday portion addressing journalists successful her bureau astatine the National Assembly complex, soon aft her bureau was reopened by the sergeant-at-arms pursuing a six-month suspension.
Natasha was suspended aft accusing Akpabio of intersexual harassment: an allegation she has truthful acold been incapable to substantiate.
Reflecting connected her ordeal, the legislator described the past six months arsenic a play of survival.
She said, “From the unjust suspension to the recall, we survived the blockade of roads, we survived the blackmail from the brainsick woman connected Facebook, it’s astonishing what we had to survive.
“I springiness God Almighty the glory and my deepest appreciation to the bully radical of Kogi Central senatorial district, Nigerians astatine large, and to my husband. I commune each men enactment their wives similar you person supported me.
“Sometimes, it’s bully to enactment the institutions to the test, we can’t [cower] successful the look of injustice, nary 1 is much Nigerian us.
“Senator Akpabio is not much of a legislator than I am, helium is not the politician of this spot and helium treated maine arsenic if I was his servant oregon home unit successful his house.
“It’s precise unfortunate that astatine this clip aft truthful galore years of ideology we volition person a National Assembly been runned by specified dictatorship, it’s wholly unacceptable.
“As for me, I’m gladsome to beryllium perceive and adjacent though we person been illegally suspended, nary time person I hesitated successful efficaciously carrying retired my duties arsenic a legislator of Kogi Central to the precise champion of my capacity.”
The station ‘Akpabio treated maine similar his servant’ — Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.
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