BREAKING: You Can’t Resume In Senate Now, NASS Tells Suspended Kogi Senator Natasha

The National Assembly Management has formally declined Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s petition to resume legislative duties aft serving her six-month suspension implicit alleged misconduct.

The National Assembly bureaucracy stated that Akpoti-Uduaghan’s six-month suspension remained successful force, pending the result of the substance presently earlier the Court of Appeal.

LEADERSHIP reports that pursuing the adjudication of the lawsuit by the Federal High Court successful Abuja successful favour of the Senate, dissatisfied Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan approached the appellate tribunal for remedy.

In a missive signed by the Acting Clerk to the National Assembly (Ag. CNA), Dr. Yahaya Danzaria, addressed to the embattled lawmaker and dated September 4, 2025, sighted by our Correspondent, the Parliament acknowledged Akpoti-Uduaghan’s notification of her intended instrumentality to the Senate connected September 4—the day she claimed marked the extremity of her six-month-long suspension. However, the National Assembly clarified that her suspension took effect from March 6, 2025, and emphasised that the substance was inactive subjudice, hence she cannot resume legislative duties.

The National Assembly insisted that nary administrative enactment tin beryllium taken until the Court of Appeal yet present a verdict connected the matter.

Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central, was suspended successful March 2025 by the Senate solution implicit alleged misconduct pursuing a spat with the Senate President Godswill Akpabio implicit seating statement during plenary successful the Red Chamber.

The missive stated that the Senate would lone reappraisal her suspension aft the court’s last pronouncement.

“The matter, therefore, remains subjudice, and until the judicial process is concluded and the Senate formally reviews the suspension successful the airy of the court’s pronouncement, nary administrative enactment tin beryllium taken by this bureau to facilitate your resumption,” the missive by the Ag. CNA to Akpoti-Uduaghan read.

He added that Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan “will beryllium duly notified of the Senate’s determination connected the substance arsenic soon arsenic it is resolved.”