The Nigerian Senate has dismissed suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s allegations of a planned arrest upon her return from an Inter-Parliamentary Union event in New York.
According to a press statement sent to our correspondent on Monday, Senate President Godswill Akpabio and the Red Chamber have no reason to engage with Akpoti-Uduaghan on this matter.
“She’s looking for her lost content creation needle in a haystack,” Adaramodu said, dismissing the senator’s claims.
“The Senate President and the Nigerian Senate have no reason to join issues with her anymore.”
Akpoti-Uduaghan claimed that Akpabio had sent staff to “evacuate” her from the UN premises upon her arrival in Abuja.
She also claimed that her participation in the IPU event was legitimate, despite her suspension.
Adaramodu suggested that Akpoti-Uduaghan was troubled by her own actions at the IPU.
“If she’s being haunted by her unguarded vituperations against Nigeria at the IPU in faraway New York, she should spare the Senate, which is not ready to be her accomplice in such a sordid voyage,” he stated.
In an interview with an online newspaper on Sunday, Akpoti-Uduaghan revealed that she attended the UN Inter-Parliamentary Union in New York without official approval.
During the interview, she claimed she was aware of plans to arrest her as soon as she arrived in Abuja.
She said, “I’m aware there are plans underway to arrest me as soon as I arrive in Abuja. The Senate President Akpabio sent three staff members, headed by the Chargé D’Affaires of the Nigerian embassy in New York, to evacuate me from the United Nations premises right after my speech.
“I was rescued by parliamentarians from other countries and the security.”
