By Musa Baba Adamu
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who represents the Kogi Central Senator will now face Senate disciplinary panel over her seat reallocation outburst in the red chamber.
The Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced this on the floor of the Senate yesterday, saying a Motion to that regard had referred the matter to its Ethics, Code of Conduct and Public Petitions committee.
It would be recalled that the controversy began when Akpoti-Uduaghan’s seat was reassigned within the Senate chamber without her consent.
The Kogi senator was moved from her original position in the minority section to the last row, a change she resisted.
Her refusal to comply with the arrangement was deemed a violation of Senate rules.
However, Akpabio said Akpoti-Uduaghan will now face disciplinary panel, which will then to revert back to the chamber after investigation.
The Senate President said: “There’s a motion before us that we should refer the entirety of the saga to our Ethics, Code of Conduct and Public Petitions, and then to revert back to us. But let me just read this for the record, even the first time the issue came up here our distinguished sister was not even speaking from her seat. And that was, that was when we tried to call her to order.”
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