CLT to Natasha: Wait for court ruling before returning to Senate

By Luminous Jannamike

ABUJA – The Centre for Leadership Training (CLT) has urged Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to hold for the Court of Appeal to determine connected her lawsuit earlier attempting to instrumentality to the Senate.

The radical said Natasha’s suspension remains successful effect and supported the Senate’s determination to await the court’s ruling earlier taking further action.

Speaking to journalists successful Abuja connected Tuesday, CLT President, Chief Azuka Francis, said Natasha’s program to instrumentality earlier September 6 was incorrect and went against the Senate’s earlier resolution.

“First, Senator Natasha’s stated resumption day is erroneous. Her suspension, arsenic resolved by the Senate, runs its afloat people until Saturday, September 6, 2025. It is truthful premature and inconsistent with the Senate’s solution for her to effort a instrumentality earlier the expiration of the subsisting sanction,” helium said.

The Senate had earlier written to Natasha done a missive dated September 4, 2025, signed by the Acting Clerk to the National Assembly, Dr. Yahaya Danzaria.

In the letter, the Senate said Natasha could not resume yet due to the fact that her lawsuit was inactive earlier the Court of Appeal.

“The taxable substance of your suspension is presently earlier the Court of Appeal. The substance truthful remains sub judice, 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 Clerk stated.

Natasha had earlier informed the Clerk that she was acceptable to instrumentality to plenary, arguing that her six-month suspension, which began connected March 6, 2025, had lapsed.

CLT said that since the substance was already successful court, it was indispensable for each parties to hold for the judicial process to reason earlier taking further steps.

“As a law-abiding instauration founded connected the principles of constitutionalism, separation of powers, and respect for judicial authority, the Senate cannot, and volition not, enactment successful a mode that prejudices the ongoing judicial process,” Francis said.

He added that stakeholders should let the tribunal to determine the lawsuit earlier making further moves.

“The Senate remains firmly committed to fairness, discipline, and the sanctity of its interior rules, portion astatine the aforesaid clip demonstrating implicit fidelity to the Nigerian Constitution and the authorization of the courts. Until the judiciary has made its last pronouncement, each parties indispensable workout patience, respect owed process, and uphold the integrity of antiauthoritarian institutions,” helium said.

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