Breaking: Senate unseals Natasha’s office, grants her access into NASS premises

By Henry Umoru

Strong indications emerged connected Tuesday that the imbroglio betwixt the embattled Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan,  PDP, Kogi Central and the President of the Senate,  Senator Godswill Akpabio, is coming to an extremity arsenic the Sergeant astatine Arms of the National Assembly, on with combined unit of information organisations, person  unsealed her 205 bureau of the Senate wing.

With this development,  the National Assembly has present granted the suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan entree to her bureau and the National Assembly premises.

With her bureau present unsealed, Akpoti-Uduaghan tin entree the National Assembly premises, perchance paving the mode for her to resume her legislative duties.

Vanguard gathered that the determination to unfastened her bureau anterior to resumption is to alteration Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to beryllium successful the hallowed enclosure upon resumption connected 7th October, 2025.

According to a source, the determination was arrived astatine during yesterday’s enactment gathering of the Senate, wherever a question volition beryllium moved and barring immoderate changes,  the Minority Leader of the Senate,  Senator Abba Moro, PDP, Benue South, volition determination the question for her to apologise,  then seconded, and it volition beryllium taken.

Recall that the embattled past Chairman of the Senate Committee connected Diaspora and NGOs,  Akpoti-Uduaghan, was successful  March slammed with a six-month suspension by the Senate, which besides barred her from participating successful each activities of the 10th Senate implicit her alleged misconduct erstwhile she protested against the reassignment of her spot by Akpabio connected February 20, 2025.

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension ended successful September 2025, but she has been incapable to resume her duties owed to ongoing ineligible issues and continued absorption from the Senate leadership. Perhaps due to the fact that of the extended recess, we volition spot however it plays retired arsenic the Senate resumes plenary sessions.

Following her suspension, she took  her lawsuit to the courts  to vacate the suspension, arsenic she was not successful, and the Senate, connected its part, spoke done its applicable officers, insisting that the substance had thing to bash with intersexual allegations,  but everything to bash with Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s contravention of the Senate Standing Orders arsenic amended.

Binta Nyako, Judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja, successful July, described the six-month suspension arsenic excessive and unconstitutional, and thereafter ordered the Senate to callback the embattled Senator, citing that suspending a Senator for specified a agelong play would exposure constituents to non-representation during that time.

Thereafter, she attempted to instrumentality to the Senate but was denied access, and the Senate stood its ground, insisting that she service her afloat term.

Also, callback that the Clerk to the National Assembly,  CNA, Kamorudeen Ogunlana, wrote her  through the Acting Clerk to NASS, Yahaya Danzaria, who notified her that  her six-month suspension subsists until the Court of Appeal delivers judgement successful the suit she instituted against the Senate.

On September 11, Counsel to Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, Michael Jonathan Numa, SAN, wrote to the Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, Kamorudeen Ogunlana, to callback the Senator truthful that she could resume her legislative duties.

According to Numa successful the letter, the CNA should enactment that nonaccomplishment to comply by Monday, 15th September 2025, volition permission them  with nary alternate but to initiate proceedings against you personally and successful your authoritative capacity. Such proceedings volition include, but are not constricted to, committal for contempt, disciplinary enactment for breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers, liability for instigating a breach of the bid with imaginable implications for nationalist security, and immoderate different remedies disposable to our lawsuit nether the law.

Responding to the missive from her lawyer, the CNA, Ogunlana, urged the nationalist to stay diligent and let the due institutions, including the Senate and the courts, to discharge their law responsibilities successful respect of the resumption of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

According to him, helium does not person the authorization to review, reverse oregon construe Senate decisions against the backdrop that his bureau serves strictly arsenic an administrative arm, providing enactment to the Senate successful accordance with their resolutions, Standing Orders and the provisi...