The Federal High Court in Abuja has stopped the planned disciplinary proceedings against Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan by the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions.
The order was issued on Tuesday by Obiora Egwuatu, who presided over an ex parte application filed by Akpoti-Uduaghan’s counsel.
Recall that on February 20, the Kogi Central lawmaker clashed with Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, over seat allocation.
She rejected her assigned seat, defying Akpabio’s order and repeatedly raising a point of order despite being overruled.
Subsequently, the senate referred Akpoti-Uduaghan to the committee on ethics, privileges, and public petitions for disciplinary review.
On February 28, in an interview on Arise TV, the Kogi senator alleged that her trouble in the senate began after she rejected sexual advances from the senate president.
Following the Senate’s disciplinary move, the Kogi senator dragged the clerk of the national assembly, the senate, senate president, and chairman of the senate committee on ethics before the court.
She prayed that the court grant an order restraining the senate and the ethics committee from “proceeding with the purported investigation” against her.
