{"id":170606,"date":"2025-07-21T14:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:31:59","slug":"aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants","title":{"rendered":"Aisha Yesufu: Senate Should Kill Us If It Wants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has vowed to stand by the lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as she insists on resuming her duties on Tuesday at the Senate, despite opposition from the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Yesufu made this vow on Monday, when she appeared as a guest on \u2018Sunrise Daily\u2019, a programme on Channels Television<\/p>\n<p>She stated that she and others would accompany Natasha to the National Assembly, saying that the suspended senator had every right to resume office following a court judgement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Senator Natasha has every right to resume office, and by tomorrow, she is not going to resume alone. There are people who are going to go with her, and I\u2019ll be one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be with her and stand with her. And if the Senate decides they are going to kill us, let them kill us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The activist faulted what she described as systemic discrimination against women in Nigerian politics.<\/p>\n<p>She described Natasha\u2019s suspension as unconstitutional, condemning the Senate for disregarding a valid court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a ruling telling them to halt the suspension process, but they didn\u2019t obey. The Senate is sending a message to Nigerians that it can act with impunity and disregard court rulings.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha had vowed to resume her duties in the Senate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate, on the other hand, had issued a stern warning to Natasha to stay away from its proceedings, saying she could not resume proceedings yet<\/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. Socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has vowed to stand by the lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as she insists on resuming her duties on Tuesday at the Senate, despite opposition from the upper chamber. Yesufu made this vow on Monday, when she appeared as a guest on \u2018Sunrise Daily\u2019, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[2779,11955,254,53],"class_list":["post-170606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-aisha-yesufu","tag-natasha","tag-nigeria","tag-senate"],"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>Aisha Yesufu: Senate Should Kill Us If It Wants - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has vowed to stand by the lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District ...\" \/>\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\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aisha Yesufu: Senate Should Kill Us If It Wants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Socio-political activist, Aisha Yesufu, has vowed to stand by the lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-21T13:24:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-21T14:31:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753095647.641585.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\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\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Aisha Yesufu: Senate Should Kill Us If It Wants\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-21T13:24:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-21T14:31:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants\"},\"wordCount\":270,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753095647.641585.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Aisha Yesufu\",\"Natasha\",\"Nigeria\",\"senate\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/aisha-yesufu-senate-should-kill-us-if-it-wants\",\"name\":\"Aisha Yesufu: Senate Should Kill Us If It Wants - 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