PDP Condemns Alleged Moves To Stop Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s Resumption In Senate

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), connected Tuesday, condemned an alleged effort by the Acting Clerk to the National Assembly (CNA) to barroom Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from resuming astatine the Senate aft what it called an unjust six-month suspension imposed connected her by the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio.

PDP said the reported enactment by the Clerk to the National Assembly smacks of a calculated effort being orchestrated by the Senator Akpabio-led All Progressives Congress (APC) Senate enactment to abridge the close of practice of the radical of Kogi Central Senatorial District and contradict them a dependable astatine the highest law-making assemblage successful the country.

The nationalist publicity caput of PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, said the effort to usage the National Assembly constitution against an elected Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria successful a gross usurpation of the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,1999 (as amended) and the Standing Rules of the Senate was highly provocative and constituted a wide and contiguous information to ideology and wide stableness of our country.

“It besides comes arsenic parts of the antics being deployed severally by the APC-controlled Senate and the Federal Government to suffocate the absorption which further confirms the creeping totalitarianism successful our state nether the APC government,” Ologungaba said successful a statement.

He said the reported enactment by the Clerk to the National Assembly against Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan further brings to the fore the allegations of attacks connected the close of women and sustained attempts to stifle their voices arsenic witnessed successful the assorted accusations of harassment against women levelled against the existent Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio implicit the years.

“The PDP demands that the Senate President should travel cleanable connected the assorted allegations alternatively of seeking to usage the National Assembly constitution to further harass, intimidate and support Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan distant from the Senate.

“The utmost persecution of six months suspension unjustly imposed connected Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, contrary to the Rules of the Senate is much than capable and the PDP stands with the radical of Kogi Central and each well-meaning Nigerians successful condemning this unwarranted renewed onslaught connected Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan.

“Our Party powerfully cautions the Clerk of the National Assembly to retreat the said missive and play by the rules by being neutral arsenic a bureaucrat and not let himself to beryllium politically entangled and utilized arsenic a instrumentality to undermine ideology and the Rule of Law successful the National Assembly and Nigeria.

“The PDP calls connected the International Community, Democracy Institutions, Right Advocacy Groups and different ideology improvement partners to emergence up successful condemnation of this renewed onslaught connected Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan.

“While charging Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan to discountenance the reported missive by the Clerk of the National Assembly and get acceptable to resume astatine the Senate, the PDP demands that the Senate enactment ensures that Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan is allowed to resume her duties and execute her roles arsenic an elected Senator of the Fed...