SENATOR NATASHA DRAGS NIGERIAN SENATE PRESIDENT TO UN INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION OVER HER SUSPENSION

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central says she has filed a petition against the President of the Nigerian Senate, Godswill Akpabio over her suspension for violation of the Senate Rules. Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan took the matter to the global stage, during her participation at the Women in Parliament Session during the Inter-Parliamentary Union Meeting (IPU) at the United Nations in New York. Senator Natasha is seeking justice and the intervention of global democratic institutions over what she considers as an act of injustice against her, as she insisted that she was unlawfully suspended from the senate The Nigerian federal lawmaker also expressed worry about her security. She also claimed that there were indications that Nigerian authorities may cause her to be detained in New York for speaking up on the issue at the global event.