- Ordinary President condemned Senate President Akpabio for ejecting Senator Natasha over a seating dispute.
- Natasha’s challenge to a reassigned seat sparked the confrontation leading to her removal.
- Ordinary President decried the Senate’s autocratic behavior and urged women’s groups to support Natasha.
Ahmed Isah, famously known as “Ordinary President” and host of the Brekete Family program on Human Rights Radio and Television, has fiercely criticised Senate President Godswill Akpabio following a heated confrontation with Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the clash occurred during a plenary session on Thursday when Senator Natasha discovered that her designated seat had been reassigned.
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Unwilling to accept the change, she challenged the decision, sparking a contentious exchange on the Senate floor. In response, Akpabio ordered security to eject her from the chamber.
On the Brekete Family program on Friday, Ordinary President lambasted the incident, accusing Akpabio of “dragging her down” and urging women’s organizations to come forward in support of the senator. He condemned the Senate’s leadership for its autocratic behavior, questioning whether the National Assembly truly exemplifies democracy.
“Are we really practicing democracy?” he asked. “The National Assembly should be a beacon of democratic values, yet what we see from the Senate is pure autocracy. The members of the House of Representatives set a wonderful example.
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I hope Nigeria can finally move forward when they move to the Senate. One man in a red cap shouldn’t be telling someone’s wife to keep quiet.
Thank God she maintained her dignity by sitting down and then standing up again, despite being dragged down. But where are the women’s organizations? It happened yesterday and still, there’s no reaction.”
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