{"id":8627,"date":"2025-09-09T17:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:31:54","slug":"you-cant-resume-now-matter-still-in-court-nigerian-senate-tells-natasha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/09\/09\/you-cant-resume-now-matter-still-in-court-nigerian-senate-tells-natasha\/","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t resume now, matter still in court \u2013 Nigerian Senate tells Natasha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p>The Nigerian Senate has told the lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, that she cannot resume office yet, despite completing her six-month suspension.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter by the Acting Clerk to the National Assembly, Dr. Yahaya Danzaria, dated September 4, 2025, the Senate acknowledged Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s notification of her intended return on September 4, the date she claimed marked the end of her suspension.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Senate, Natasha\u2019s six-month suspension remains in force pending the outcome of a Court of Appeal case instituted against the Senate by Akpoti-Uduaghan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-18\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-5\" data-google-query-id=\"CNzfpfuZzI8DFUSigwcdOr4Ifw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/14001636\/DP_InsidePost_MPU_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe matter remains sub judice, and until the judicial process is concluded, no administrative action can be taken to facilitate your resumption,\u201d the letter read in parts.<\/p>\n<p>According to the letter, the Senate would only review her suspension after the court\u2019s pronouncement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Senate has told the lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, that she cannot resume office yet, despite completing her six-month suspension. In a letter by the Acting Clerk to the National Assembly,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8629,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions\/8629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}