Voice of reason has prevailed over tyranny, says Atiku as Natasha returns to Senate

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has welcomed the unsealing of the bureau of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, describing the improvement arsenic impervious that “the dependable of crushed has prevailed.”

Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents Kogi Central, was suspended by the Senate successful March for six months. 

On Tuesday, she regained entree to her bureau astatine the National Assembly, with supporters cheering arsenic she walked into Suite 2.05 of the Senate Wing, which was opened by the Deputy Director of the Sergeant-at-Arms, Alabi Adedeji.

Although the Senate is presently connected recess and volition not resume plenary until October 7, 2025, the improvement drew wide reactions, peculiarly from absorption leaders. 

Atiku, successful a connection posted connected his X handle, said Natasha’s reinstatement is simply a triumph for antiauthoritarian struggle.

“It is reassuring that the dependable of crushed has prevailed astatine past with the unsealing of the bureau of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Though the precious clip denied the radical of Kogi Central successful the Senate tin ne'er beryllium reclaimed, this conflict has not been successful vain. It has proven, erstwhile again, that erstwhile we basal together, we tin triumph implicit tyranny,” Atiku wrote.

The erstwhile Vice President linked her suspension to what helium called a broader signifier of governmental intimidation nether the Bola Tinubu administration. 

He argued that the suspension of Natasha, the situation successful Rivers State involving Governor Siminalayi Fubara and authorities lawmakers, and the “weaponisation of authorities institutions to harass and intimidate absorption voices” are deliberate moves.

“These are not isolated acts. They are deliberate markers of the Tinubu administration’s strategy arsenic 2027 approaches: to subvert our hard-earned ideology and compromise the volition of the radical astatine immoderate cost,” Atiku warned.

He further pledged that the absorption would defy specified tendencies. “On our part, we shall bash everything morganatic and wrong the bounds of the instrumentality to support our democracy, support the sovereignty of the people’s mandate, and rescue our federation from the grip of authoritarianism.”

Earlier, Akpoti-Uduaghan had appeared astatine the FCT High Court successful a lawsuit of alleged defamation filed against her by the Federal Government earlier proceeding to the National Assembly, wherever her instrumentality to her bureau was marked by songs and jubilation from her supporters.

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