Kogi Central senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss an appeal filed by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, regarding her legal challenge of her six-month suspension by the Senate in March last year.
Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan, made the request in a counter-affidavit in opposition to Mr Akpabio’s appeal, Vanguard reported. Her senior legislative aide swore the counter-affidavit in response to Mr Akpabio’s motion on notice dated 21 January.
Although Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan resumed from the six-month suspension in September last year, the legal action regarding the Senate’s decision still lingers in court.
Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan challenged her suspension at the Federal High Court in Abuja, which ended up giving a controversial, indefinite judgement. The decision prompted her and Mr Akpabio to challenge various aspects of it at the Court of Appeal in Abuja.
During a hearing at the Court of Appeal in
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