Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has reinforced the sexual harassment claims she made against Senator president Godswill Akpabio.
Speaking during a BBC interview Akpoti-Uduaghan insisted that she received unwanted sexual advances from Senator Akpabio on several occasions, stressing that her March 6, 2025, suspension from the upper chambers of the Nigeria legislative assembly was to silence her from speaking.
” It was episode after episode and moments after moments,” Akpoti Uduaghan stated
“We were at his country home. He was taking me around his house. My husband was walking behind us. He held my hand,”
“He then squeezed my hands in a very suggestive way. We, women, know what it means when a man squeezes our hands in a suggestive way.
“And he went, ‘Now that you’re in the Senate, I’ll make an opportunity for us to come here and have a good moment,’ you know, along that line.”
“There was a time when I rushed to work and forgot to wear my ring. There were about five senators there. He said, ‘Oh Natasha, you are not wearing your ring, is this an invitation to treat?’ You know, statements like this.”
Senator Akpabio has denied making any creepy move towards the Kogi Central representative who was suspended a day after making the allegations on the floor of the Senate.
“I am being victimised. My suspension is a way to silence me,” she said.
