{"id":75556,"date":"2025-09-23T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75556"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:56:17","slug":"senate-unseals-natasha-akpoti-uduaghans-office-ahead-of-resumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/23\/senate-unseals-natasha-akpoti-uduaghans-office-ahead-of-resumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Unseals Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s Office Ahead of Resumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate on Tuesday reopened the office of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central), signaling her likely return to full legislative duties after a six-month suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel from the Sergeant-at-Arms, assisted by security operatives, unsealed Office 205 in the Senate wing, which had been locked since her suspension in March.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes ahead of the chamber\u2019s October 7 resumption.<\/p>\n<p>Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended following a dispute over the reassignment of her seat and was accused of breaching Senate Standing Orders.<\/p>\n<p>She challenged the sanction in court, while Senate leaders insisted it was procedural and not personal.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court faulted the length of the suspension, saying it denied her constituents representation.<\/p>\n<p>The case is still pending before the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The reopening of her office followed a Senate leadership meeting on Monday, according to National Assembly sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; The Senate on Tuesday reopened the office of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central), signaling her likely return to full legislative duties after a six-month suspension. Personnel from the Sergeant-at-Arms, assisted by security operatives, unsealed Office 205 in the Senate wing, which had been locked since her suspension in March. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75556","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\/75556","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=75556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75558,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75556\/revisions\/75558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}