Why IPU won’t consider Apoti-Uduagan’s petition – Nigerian lawmaker

The Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Activities, Jimoh Ibrahim, has said the complaints made by Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan before the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) regarding her suspension from the Senate would soon be dismissed.

Mr Ibrahim, who represents Ondo South Senatorial District, argued that Mr Akpoti-Uduaghan’s attendance at the IPU meeting held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday, was unauthorised and, therefore, illegal.

He said this in a statement on Friday.

Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan took her case to the IPU, apparently seeking international intervention in her suspension from the Senate.

The embattled senator was suspended for six months for allegedly flouting Senate Standing Rules.

She addressed delegates at an IPU meeting held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, during which she also raised allegations of sexual harassment against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.

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