The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Senate to recall the senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, back for her legislative duties.
The court described the senator’s six-month suspension as “excessive.”
The presiding judge, Justice Binta Nyako, said this in a judgement delivered on Friday, July 4, 2025.
The judge also awarded a fine of N5 million against Akpoti-Uduaghan for her “satirical apology” message, which she posted on her Facebook page on April 27 in disobedience of the valid order of the court.
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Justice Nyako, therefore, ordered Akpoti-Uduaghan to tender an unreserved apology in two national dailies and on her Facebook page within seven days of the order before she could purge herself of the contemptuous act against the court.
The senator had, in a suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/384/2025 and filed on March 3, dragged the clerk of the National Assembly, the Senate, and Senate President Godswill Akpabio to court.
Equally joined in the suit seeking a court order to stop them from sanctioning her over her alleged misconduct was the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Public Petitions and Privileges, Neda Imasuen.
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