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Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has announced to her supporters that she will be resuming her senate duties on Tuesday

The suspended senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has told her jubilant supporters in a video trending on social media, that she would resume her legislative activities in the red chamber on Tuesday this week.

She expressed gratitude to her supporters following a favourable court judgment that reaffirmed her position in the Senate.

She said, “I thank you for your support. I am glad we are victorious today. We shall resume in the Senate on Tuesday by the grace of God.”

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja had on Friday nullified the six-month suspension slammed on Akpoti-Uduaghan by the Senate,

The court ordered that she should be recalled from suspension.

It also fined her the sum of N5 million for contempt of court over a Facebook post deemed to have violated an earlier court order.

The court declared that the six-month suspension slammed on her was excessive, unconstitutional, and an infringement on the rights of her constituents.

Justice Binta Nyako in a ruling that spanned multiple legal issues, held that Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s Facebook post, a satirical apology directed at Senate President Godswill Akpabio, breached an interim injunction issued by the court on March 4, 2025.

That injunction had barred all parties from making public statements or social media posts relating to the ongoing suit she filed challenging her suspension.

The embattled senator was suspended for six months by the Senate in March after a rowdy plenary during which she accused Akpabio of sexual harassment.

The suspension had sparked outrage among various civil society groups and human rights organisations.

Akpoti-Uduaghan subsequently sued the Senate and its leadership, arguing that the action was a calculated attempt to silence her and disenfranchise her constituents.

In response to a satirical Facebook post dated April 27 – in which she offered what the court described as a “mock apology” to Akpabio, lawyers representing the Senate President filed a contempt application against her.

The lawyers claimed that the post was in defiance of the court’s gag order.

During proceedings, Akpoti-Uduaghan’s legal team contended that the post was unrelated to the suspension case, insisting it concerned her personal allegations of misconduct against the Senate President.

Justice Nyako, however, disagreed, stating that the post was clearly linked to the matter before the court and therefore constituted a deliberate breach of the court’s directive.

Delivering her ruling, Justice Nyako imposed a N5 million fine on the senator and ordered her to issue a public apology within seven days.

The apology must be published in two national dailies and reposted on her Facebook page.

NgeneUkwenu:
She can't even near the gate of the National Assembly on Tuesday. She will be bounced.

saasala:
The court has ruled in her favour to return to the senate but will she be welcomed?

Does she even have the mind to resume?

saasala:
The court has ruled in her favour to return to the senate but will she be welcomed?

Does she even have the mind to resume?

Levels1:
She can't be allow into the assemble gate as she's still on suspension. She needs to do the needful by following the court order, part of the judgment says she should apologise in two dayly paper and on her FB page also payment of 5m ,she needs to shown us the evidence of her compliance first.

and the good thing is that she was even the petitional as this makes it even more complicated for her.

Ometere1978:
Hahahaha,underate her at yur own peril
U only read about her on social media,u don't know anything about Natasha.
If u doubt me ask FGYB

SirBunky85:
Has she written an apology to the senate on her FB page as directed by the courts? that's how some you choose only one side of a whole.

judewrites:
Is 5 million naira her acceptance fee?

I'm just thinking out loud 🤔

Levels1:
She's the one printed on Nigerian one thousand naira note,I guess.

She is yet to meet up with the court orders as such she isn't retuning anytime soon

NgeneUkwenu:
She can't even near the gate of the National Assembly on Tuesday. She will be bounced.