Sen Natasha Brave Senate, announced her return to the room on Tuesday

The suspended parliamentary member representing the Central Kogi Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Natasha Akpoti-Uuduaghan, has announced that he will return to the Senate to continue his duties on Tuesday, July 8.

Natasha who made the announcement in a statement on Sunday, said:
“I am grateful for your support. I am glad we won today. We will continue at the Senate on Tuesday by God’s grace.”

Natasha was slammed with a suspension of six months by the Red Room in March after a fight with the President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio, but received a suspension of sentence on Friday when the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja canceled the suspension and ordered the senate to return it.

The court stated that the suspension of six months hit him was excessive, non-constitutional, and violations of the rights of his constituents.

In another decision, he was found guilty of insulting the court after he violated the temporary order issued by the court on March 4, 2025, except for all parties from making public statements or social media posts relating to the ongoing lawsuit which he filed with his suspension.

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Natasha was found guilty of making a satirical Facebook post on April 27, where he offered what the court described as “artificial apology” to Akpabio. The lawyer who represented the President of the Senate submitted an application for an insult to him.

He was fined N5M and was ordered to issue public apologies in two national daily.

But apart from the orders given by Judge Binta Nyako, a spokesman for the Senate, Senator Adeyemi Adaramodu, in a statement on Saturday, said Natasha would not be restored by the red room until he complied with court instructions to publish formal apologies and drop Satir Facebook posts.

Senate advisor, Paul Dauda, ​​San, who also commented on the court orders, described the decision as a partial victory, and insisted that the court never ordered Natasha’s recovery.

“The court has never ordered his recovery. Comments on the duration of the suspension are obemen-diktum-not binding,” Dauda told reporters after the court’s decision.

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