Natasha AkpotiSenator representing Kogi State Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has dared the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio to stop her from making a point she stood up to make during today’s plenary session of the Red Chamber.
The Senate President had declined the request of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to speak as the session was on today, February 20, but the Senator insisted that she would make the point.
In the exchange of words between the two, Natasha, who was not allowed to speak after pleading to be allowed to do so under order 10 of privileges said: “I am not afraid.”
She stressed that she would not allow herself to be silenced.
In the heat of the argument between the two senators, Akpabio ordered that Natasha should be walked out of the Chamber but she told other senators who pleaded with her to obey the order of the Senate President: “I will not leave this seat.”
She stood up from her seat on two occasions and spoke on top of her voice directly to the Senate President who was on the presiding seat.
She said that ever since Akpabio became Senate President, he had continually stopped her from speaking in the Chamber.
She said that she was not elected by her constituency to go and warm the seat, protesting in absolute anger, saying: “I have been taking a lot from you (Senate President). I am ready for you.”
