AKPABIO: GROUP TELLS NATASHA TO APOLOGIZE

In a bid to resolve the embarrassing saga involving the Senate Presiden, Godswill Akpabio and the senator representing Koggi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, leaders of the Kogi Consultative Assembly have appealed to Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan to apologise to Senate President Goodwill Akpabio over the allegations of sexual advances and others she made against him.

Members of the group comprise past and present political office holders from Kogi State, urged Natasha to take the path of honour and apologise to the Senate leadership.
While the crisis worsened, the Kogi senator accused Akpabio of making sexual advances at her. Reacting, the Assembly through its convener, Hon. Kabiru Mohammed, had charged Natasha to take responsibility for her actions and refrain from acts that could tarnish her political image and endanger her rising profile.

Mohammed further said it was highly unbecoming for a high-ranking citizen to resort to blackmail and blind vilification of the Senate President to escape accountability.
According to him, to accuse the Senate President of sexual harassment just when she had been called to order for embarrassing the Senate and the good people of Kogi State, whom she represents, was uncalled for and lame.

The group concluded its press statement by pledging its members’ unalloyed support to Senator Natasha as a dependable representative and consummate politician but insisted that an apology is all that is needed to clear the mess the senator has found herself as it will establish her as a true democrat and patriot in the Nigerian political scene.