The Lagos State Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Dayo Ekong, has strongly condemned the suspension of Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, calling it a “grotesque perversion of justice” and a blatant act of oppression.
Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended for six months following her allegations of sexual harassment against Senate President Godswill Akpabio. She had accused Akpabio of making sexual advances toward her and allegedly denying her certain privileges for rejecting them. In response, she petitioned the Senate Ethics Committee, which ultimately dismissed her claims on procedural grounds and proceeded to suspend her.
Reacting to the development, Ekong decried the decision, stating that silencing a female senator was a dangerous precedent that symbolized oppression against women in Nigeria.
In a statement, Ekong said:
“As Chairman of the Lagos State Labour Party, I speak with a mix of outrage and sorrow at the grievous injustice unfolding in our National Assembly. Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, a voice courageously alleging sexual harassment by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, has been suspended for six months—not for her accusations to be investigated, but for daring to speak them.
“The Ethics Committee dismissed her petition on procedural technicalities, then punished her for ‘ridiculing’ the Senate. This is not justice; it is a grotesque perversion of it.
“If a sitting senator—one of only four women in a chamber of 109—can be silenced, suspended, and barred from her office for seeking accountability, what does this mean for ordinary Nigerian women? The market trader harassed by police, the student preyed upon by lecturers, the domestic worker abused with no platform to scream?”
Ekong called for an immediate reversal of Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension and urged the Senate to uphold fairness and justice, rather than suppress voices that challenge power.
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