{"id":168313,"date":"2025-07-04T12:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan"},"modified":"2025-07-04T13:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:23:17","slug":"court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan","title":{"rendered":"Court Orders Akpabio to Recall Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Justice Binta Fatima Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, faulted the suspension of Kogi State Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and nullified it.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Nyako subsequently ordered the Senate to recall the suspended senator on grounds that her suspension for six months violated the Constitution and also denied her constituents of adequate representation.<\/p>\n<p>The judge made the order while delivering judgment in the suit filed by Akpoti-Uduaghan challenging her six months suspension by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Nyako stated that while the National Assembly has powers to discipline any erring members, such discipline should not be too excessive to the extent of depriving her people of representation.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Nyako explained that the six months suspension was excessive because it exceeded the 180 days the house is expected to sit.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the court found her guilty of contempt of court and subsequently fined her the sum of N5 million.<\/p>\n<p>She is to also tender a public apology to the court in two national dailies as well as on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Justice Binta Fatima Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, faulted the suspension of Kogi State Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and nullified it. Justice Nyako subsequently ordered the Senate to recall the suspended senator on grounds that her suspension for six months violated the Constitution and also denied her constituents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[621,1578,69,15912,254],"class_list":["post-168313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-akpabio","tag-breaking","tag-court","tag-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court Orders Akpabio to Recall Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Justice Binta Fatima Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, faulted the suspension of Kogi State Senator, Na ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court Orders Akpabio to Recall Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Justice Binta Fatima Nyako of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, faulted the suspension of Kogi State Senator, Na ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-04T11:05:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-04T12:23:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751619285.913868.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Court Orders Akpabio to Recall Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-04T11:05:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-04T12:23:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751619285.913868.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akpabio\",\"breaking\",\"court\",\"Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/court-orders-akpabio-to-recall-natasha-akpoti-uduaghan\",\"name\":\"Court Orders Akpabio to Recall Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan - 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