Nigeria: Natasha Locked Out of N/Meeting

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) has been prevented from gaining entry into the National Meeting Complex to reduction Tuesday plenary.

Security operatives, who kept vigil at the entire entrance gates to the National Meeting with their vans, had locked the entire gates on Natasha’s arrival.

The senator became once in firm of her supporters and political allies who came in solidarity alongside with her.

Recall that the Senate had in March suspended Natasha for six months over alleged misconduct and refusal to conform with the chamber’s sitting arrangement at some level of plenary on February 20, 2025.

However the senator approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, to explore redress.

The court docket dominated that the Senate acted beyond its powers by suspending Senator Natasha for six months and ordered for her recall.

Justice Binta Nyako, who delivered the judgement, described the length of the suspension as “excessive” and with out a transparent upright foundation.

The deem pointed out that since the National Meeting is easiest required to take a seat down for 181 days in a legislative yr, suspending a lawmaker for roughly that very same length of time effectively silences the reveal of a total constituency–a transfer she described as unconstitutional.

Since then Natasha has been making attempts to renew plenary.

On Saturday, she vowed to renew plenary nowadays when the Senate reconvenes.

However the Chairman Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi Adaramodu (APC, Ekiti South), in a press launch in Sunday warned Natasha to live far from the National Meeting.

Adaramodu claimed that Natasha became once but to conform with court docket directives of N5 million payable to the federal government for contempt of court docket, and a fundamental apology in two nationwide newspapers and on her Fb page.

“The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria desires to reaffirm, for the third time, that there’ll not be any longer any subsisting court docket repeat mandating the Senate to recall Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan forward of the expiration of her suspension.

“This clarification becomes fundamental following the circulating claims by the suspended Senator that she intends to renew at the Senate subsequent Tuesday in step with a misinterpretation of the recent judgment delivered by Hon. Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja.

“Rather, the Honourable Court gave a non-binding advisory urging the Senate to consider amending its Standing Orders and reviewing the suspension, which it opined might be excessive,” the assertion said.

Day-to-day Belief stories that heaps of of National Meeting workers and guests are presently left stranded at the gates as security operatives have locked in all places compelling motorists to flip reduction.

The reach has led to traffic congestion, as motorist and pedestrians are Manoeuvring to search out their capacity out.