The Chairman of the Senate Interparliamentary Committee, Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, has slammed the suspended senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, announcing her petition on the Inter-Parliamentary Union is ‘dead on arrival.’
The previous Ondo governorship aspirant disclosed this in a commentary issued in Abuja on Thursday.
Akpoti-Uduaghan had escalated her dispute with Akpabio, presenting her case at a United Countries discussion board, World Parliamentary Union, alleging political victimisation.
She used to be suspended on March 6 next a warm disagreement with the Senate management over a unused seating association, which she claimed used to be designed to undermine her.
Tensions intensified when Akpoti-Uduaghan, on nationwide tv, accused Akpabio of punishing her for rejecting his alleged sexual advances.
Talking on the Ladies in Parliament consultation right through the Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly on the United Countries in Fresh York, Akpoti-Uduaghan referred to as for world intervention to keep the Nigerian Senate responsible.
However Ibrahim argued that her go used to be baseless as she used to be no longer a member of the union.
Consistent with him, IPU club used to be prolonged to Nigeria as a rustic and no longer Natasha.
He mentioned, “A petition can handiest be lodged in opposition to any other member atmosphere via a member atmosphere. This signifies that the IPU can not imagine petitions from people who aren’t contributors. The suspended Senator Natasha isn’t a member of the IPU, however Nigeria is!
“Moreover, the suspended Senator can not constitute the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I served because the intervening time president of the IPU in Geneva in 2023, and I’m habitual with how the IPU operates next presiding over its court cases.
“Furthermore, as Chairman of the Interparliamentary Committee in the Nigerian Senate, I did not approve or authorise the suspended Senator Natasha to attend the IPU on behalf of Nigeria to the Senate President.”