{"id":77059,"date":"2025-10-21T22:01:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77059"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:01:34","slug":"again-senator-natasha-clashes-with-akpabio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/21\/again-senator-natasha-clashes-with-akpabio\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, Senator Natasha Clashes with Akpabio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tension flared in the Senate on Tuesday when Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan clashed with Senate President Godswill Akpabio during plenary over a debate on rape.<\/p>\n<p>Akpoti-Uduaghan, seeking to contribute to the discussion, raised her hand but was not recognized by Akpabio, prompting her to protest loudly, \u201cLet me speak, I\u2019m a woman!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her outburst drew murmurs across the chamber as she insisted the issue directly affected women and her voice must be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Before the exchange could escalate, Senator Adams Oshiomhole cited the Senate\u2019s Rule of Order, noting the debate had already been concluded. His intervention restored calm.<\/p>\n<p>The incident underscored growing tensions over gender-sensitive debates in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Tension flared in the Senate on Tuesday when Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan clashed with Senate President Godswill Akpabio during plenary over a debate on rape. Akpoti-Uduaghan, seeking to contribute to the discussion, raised her hand but was not recognized by Akpabio, prompting her to protest loudly, \u201cLet me speak, I\u2019m a woman!\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77059","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=77059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77061,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77059\/revisions\/77061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}