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Senate President Godswill Akpabio has been accused by suspended Kogi Central senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of thwarting a lawsuit she filed to overturn her suspension.

Natasha accused Akpabio of bringing a petition against Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Abuja Federal High Court before the Department of State Services (DSS) and the National Judicial Council (NJC).

She asserted that Justice Egwuatu resigned from her case as a result of Akpabio’s plea.

The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions was prevented from pursuing disciplinary measures against Akpoti-Uduaghan by an interim injunction issued by Justice Egwuatu on March 4.

The judge later withdrew from the lawsuit, though.

In her hometown of Okehi, Kogi State, Natasha spoke to her supporters, saying: “Justice Egwuatu was supposed to sit, take all the pleadings and decide, which I believe would have been in our favor, and that means we would have had the suspension quashed, and I would have resumed duties at the senate.

“But what happened, as soon as the judge resumed he recused himself from the case. And why was that, the moment the case was assigned to him, the Senate President wrote a petition to the NJC and DSS against the judge.

“And we all know why, maybe the judge refused to play game and that’s why they refused to take him out.

“Even though we say the judiciary is corrupt, there are some good judges but they get harassed to do bad things.

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