Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the unsealing of the office of Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, senator representing Kogi central.
On Tuesday, the senate, through Alabi Adedeji, deputy
director, sergeant-at-arms, reopened the office in suite 2.05 of the senate
wing, paving the way for the lawmaker’s return to legislative duties.
The senator’s office had been under lock and key since she
was suspended from the red chamber on March 6, 2025.
Akpoti-Uduaghan was debarred for six months over alleged
breaches of the senate standing rules.
On July 4, the federal high court posited that the
suspension was “excessive and unconstitutional”.
Despite the ruling, on September 9, the national assembly
prevented Akpoti-Uduaghan from resuming legislative duties, insisting that her
suspension was still a subject of litigation.
‘UNITY CAN TRIUMPH OVER TYRANNY’
In a statement, Abubakar said Nigerians can overcome tyranny
if they stand united.
“It is reassuring that the voice of reason has prevailed at
last with the unsealing of the office of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan,” the
statement reads.
“Though the precious time denied the people of Kogi Central
in the Senate can never be reclaimed, this struggle has not been in vain. It
has proven, once again, that when we stand together, we can triumph over
tyranny.”
Abubakar criticised President Bola Tinubu over the recently
lifted emergency rule in Rivers, accusing the commander-in-chief of subverting
Nigeria’s democracy.
“The suspension of Governor Simi Fubara and lawmakers of the
Rivers State House of Assembly, the unlawful suspension of Senator
Akpoti-Uduaghan, and the weaponisation of state institutions to harass and
intimidate opposition voices are not isolated acts,” Abubakar said.
“They are deliberate markers of the Tinubu administration’s
strategy as 2027 approaches: to subvert our hard-earned democracy and
compromise the will of the people at any cost.”
Abubakar said the opposition will do everything within the
bounds of the law to protect the nation’s democracy, defend the sovereignty of
the people’s mandate, and “rescue our nation from the grip of
authoritarianism”.
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