{"id":232919,"date":"2025-07-22T23:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/natasha-remains-suspended-senate-defends-entry-denial-to-lawmaker-channels-television\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:38:20","slug":"natasha-remains-suspended-senate-defends-entry-denial-to-lawmaker-channels-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/natasha-remains-suspended-senate-defends-entry-denial-to-lawmaker-channels-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha Remains Suspended, Senate Defends Entry Denial To Lawmaker \u2022 Channels Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Remains Suspended, Senate Defends Entry Denial To Lawmaker \u2022 Channels Television<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senate spokesman Yemi Adaramodu says Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan remains suspended till the red chamber resume from recess in two months\u2019 time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adaramodu was a guest on Channels Television\u2019s <em>Politics Today<\/em> programme on Tuesday, hours after the Senate barred the suspended lawmaker from resuming legislative duties at the National Assembly in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended in March 2025 for violating Senate rules after a seat arrangement brawl with Senate President Godswill Akpabio whom she accused of sexual misconduct, an allegation Akpabio denied.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker, who relied on a recent judgment delivered by Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, made an attempt to resume Senate proceedings on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 but was barred.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch full video:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Natasha Remains Suspended, Senate Defends Entry Denial To Lawmaker | Politics Today\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dDnFUbsaWHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sen. Akpoti-Uduaghan Vows To Return After NASS Recess\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ub5jg5TJwVA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Godswill Akpabio,Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2025\/07\/22\/video-natasha-remains-suspended-senate-defends-entry-denial-to-lawmaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Remains Suspended, Senate Defends Entry Denial To Lawmaker \u2022 Channels Television \u00a0 Senate spokesman Yemi Adaramodu says Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan remains suspended till the red chamber resume from recess in two months\u2019 time. Adaramodu was a guest on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today programme on Tuesday, hours after the Senate barred the suspended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[173],"tags":[624,413],"class_list":["post-232919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-godswill-akpabio","tag-senator-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}