Natasha: Allow senate, courts to discharge responsibilities – Clerk

By Henry Umoru

ABUJA – The Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA), Barrister Kamoru Ogunlana, has appealed to the nationalist to stay diligent and let the due institutions – including the Senate and the courts – to discharge their law responsibilities regarding the resumption of suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central).

According to him, the CNA does not person the authorization to review, reverse, oregon construe Senate decisions, stressing that his bureau functions strictly arsenic an administrative limb that provides enactment to the Senate successful enactment with its resolutions, Standing Orders, and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).

In a connection issued successful Abuja by the Director of Information for the CNA, Bullah Audu Bi-Allah, the Clerk emphasized that the question of whether Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan tin resume legislative duties aft the expiration of her six-month suspension rests solely with the Senate, oregon with a competent tribunal decision, and not with his office.

This clarification comes a week earlier the Senate is scheduled to resume from its recess connected September 23.

The CNA’s connection followed correspondence from Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s ineligible team, led by Michael Jonathan Numa, SAN, which had written to the Clerk urging that she beryllium recalled to alteration her to resume legislative duties.

The CNA’s bureau explained that connected March 6, 2025, the Senate passed a solution suspending Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan for six months. While the substance was challenged successful court, the Federal High Court did not overturn the Senate’s resolution, and nary binding bid has yet been issued to reverse it.

It was further noted that connected September 4, 2025, Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan wrote to the Clerk expressing her volition to resume legislative duties. The CNA, successful enactment with procedure, conveyed this to the Senate leadership, which observed that the substance remains earlier the Court of Appeal and is truthful sub judice. As such, immoderate alteration successful presumption indispensable travel either done a caller Senate solution oregon a definitive tribunal order.

“The Clerk is truthful not successful a presumption to facilitate her resumption astatine this time,” the connection read.

The CNA reaffirmed that his bureau is committed to owed process and operates strictly wrong lawful administrative limits.

“The Office of the Clerk remains guided by the principles of constitutionalism, organization respect, and the regularisation of law. The nationalist is urged to stay diligent and let the Senate and the courts to discharge their law responsibilities,” the connection added.

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