Labour condemns continued barring of Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan

…Says Senate enactment a unsafe descent towards fascism

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru

ABUJA — The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned the continued barring of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from performing her law duties, describing the enactment of the Godswill Akpabio-led Senate arsenic a nonstop battle connected ideology and a unsafe descent towards fascism.

In a connection issued Thursday by its President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, the NLC said the determination to support the Kogi Central lawmaker retired of the National Assembly was not a specified mistake successful judgement but “a brazen, premeditated onslaught connected antiauthoritarian principles and the sovereignty of Nigerian voters.”

The statement, titled “Senate’s Persecution of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is simply a Descent into Legislative Dictatorship and Democratic Anarchy”, warned that denying her entree to resume duties aft the expiration of her suspension and successful defiance of tribunal rulings was the “height of impunity and legislative atrocious faith.”

“The Senate’s reliance connected a frivolous technicality, claiming the substance is sub judice, is thing but a ploy to soundlessness dissent and crush opposition,” the NLC said. “This action, led by Senator Akpabio, constitutes a gross maltreatment of powerfulness that shames the hallowed chambers of the National Assembly and undermines the corporate volition of the radical of Kogi Central.”

The labour assemblage further argued that by disenfranchising an full senatorial district, the Senate was efficaciously stealing governmental practice and deepening economical injustice.

“This signals to each Nigerians that their votes tin beryllium invalidated by the whims of a tyrannical leadership,” it warned.

The NLC maintained that the determination was a test-run to suppress absorption voices up of the 2027 elections.

“We volition not basal idly by portion ideology is cannibalised,” Ajaero declared. “The labour movement, arsenic the historical defender of justness and the communal good, volition mobilise its immense rank and motivation authorization to defy this descent into autocracy. An onslaught connected 1 legislator contiguous is an onslaught connected the sovereignty of each Nigerian elector tomorrow.”

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