PDP to Natasha: Ignore NASS directive, prepare to resume at Senate

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, to disregard the letter issued by the Clerk of the National Assembly and prepare to resume at the Senate.

The PDP said this while condemning what it described as an attempt by the Senate to bar Akpoti-Uduaghan from resuming after the expiration of the six-month suspension imposed on her.

The PDP made this known in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, on Tuesday, September 9, 2025.

Ologunagba further called on the Senate leadership to ensure that Akpoti-Uduaghan was allowed to resume her duties and perform her roles as an elected Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria unhindered.

The PDP spokesperson stated that the reported action by the Clerk of the National Assembly was a calculated attempt to abridge the right of representation of the people of Kogi Central Senatorial District and deny them a voice in the country’s highest law-making body.

NASS to Natasha: You can’t resume at Senate

He noted that the attempt to use the National Assembly establishment against an elected Senator was in gross violation of the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,1999 (as amended), and the Standing Rules of the Senate.

According to him, this constitutes a clear danger to the democracy of the country and an attempt to silent the opposition and attacks on the rights of women.

Ologunagba called on Senate President Godswill Akpabio to come clean on the matter.

He said that the extreme persecution of the six-month suspension imposed on Akpoti-Uduaghan, “contrary to the Rules of the Senate”, was more than enough.

He expressed the PDP’s solidarity with the people of Kogi Central and all well-meaning Nigerians in condemning the unwarranted renewed plot against the lawmaker.

The PDP spokesman called on the Clerk of the National Assembly to withdraw the letter in question and adhere to the rules by remaining neutral as a bureaucrat.

He also urged Clark not to allow himself to be politically entangled and used as a tool to undermine democracy and the Rule of Law in the National Assembly and Nigeria.

The Star