{"id":75436,"date":"2025-09-12T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75436"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T15:53:32","slug":"nlc-slams-senate-over-continued-bar-on-senator-natasha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/12\/nlc-slams-senate-over-continued-bar-on-senator-natasha\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC Slams Senate Over Continued Bar on Senator Natasha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has condemned the Senate\u2019s decision to maintain its bar on Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, describing it as a direct assault on democracy and the will of the people.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, said the Godswill Akpabio-led Senate\u2019s action amounted to a \u201cpremeditated assault on democracy, a dangerous slide towards fascism, and a brazen disregard for the will of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The labour body recalled that Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s suspension had been voided by a court ruling, yet the Senate has failed to reinstate her even after the six-month suspension elapsed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate\u2019s recourse to a frivolous legal technicality, claiming the matter is sub judice, is the height of legislative bad faith,\u201d Ajaero said. \u201cIt is a ploy to silence dissent, crush opposition, and manipulate the judiciary as a tool of political persecution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NLC stressed that the continued exclusion of Kogi Central from representation amounts to disenfranchising an entire senatorial district, denying them participation in lawmaking, oversight, and resource allocation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis action is not only morally reprehensible but a direct attack on the Nigerian people,\u201d the statement read. \u201cBy denying Kogi Central its voice in the Senate, the leadership is perpetuating exclusion, economic injustice, and sending a dangerous message that citizens\u2019 votes can be invalidated by the whims of a privileged few.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The congress further warned that the development could be \u201ca test-run for emasculating opposition and subjugating the sovereign will\u201d as the 2027 elections draw near.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has condemned the Senate\u2019s decision to maintain its bar on Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, describing it as a direct assault on democracy and the will of the people. In a statement on Thursday, NLC President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, said the Godswill Akpabio-led Senate\u2019s action amounted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75440,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75436\/revisions\/75440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}