The suspended lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Senator
Natasha Akpoti-Udaughan, on Sunday, tendered an unreserved apology to Senate
President Godswill Akpabio over the controversial sexu@! harassment allegation
she levelled against him.
However, her perceived apology was veiled in a satirical
letter she wrote to the former Akwa Ibom governor, who is currently in Rome for
the late Pope Francis’ funeral and made available to newsmen in Abuja.
PUNCH Online reported that Natasha was suspended on March 6
following a heated disagreement with the Senate leadership over a new seating
arrangement, which she alleged was designed to undermine her.
Tensions rose further when Akpoti-Uduaghan accused Akpabio
on national television of punishing her for rejecting his purported sexual
advances.
During the Women in Parliament session at the
Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting at the United Nations in New York,
Akpoti-Uduaghan called for international intervention to hold the Nigerian
Senate accountable.
She also criticised the severe measures imposed on her,
including the withdrawal of security, salary cuts, and a six-month suspension
from the National Assembly.
Following a series of legal fireworks between both parties,
the court barred the duo from talking to the press and commenting on the issue
until the legal outcome of the case.
However, on Sunday, two days after Akpabio led a Federal
Government delegation to the Vatican, the Kogi Central senator wrote a derisive
‘Apology Letter’ directed at the Senate President.
It read, “Dear Distinguished Senate President Godswill
Akpabio, It is with the deepest sarcasm and utmost theatrical regret that I
tender this apology for the grievous crime of possessing dignity and
self-respect in your most exalted presence.
“I have reflected extensively on my unforgivable failure to
recognise that legislative success in certain quarters is apparently not earned
through merit, but through the ancient art of compliance — of the very personal
kind.
“How remiss of me not to understand that my refusal to
indulge your… “requests” was not merely a personal choice, but a constitutional
violation of the unwritten laws of certain men’s entitlement. Truly, I must
apologize for prioritizing competence over capitulation, vision over vanity,
and the people’s mandate over private dinners behind closed doors.
“I now realize the catastrophic consequences of my actions:
legislation delayed, tempers flared, and the tragic bruising of egos so large
they require their own postcodes. For this disruption to the natural order of
“quid pro quo,” I bow my head in fictional shame.
“Please find it in your magnanimous heart — somewhere buried
deep beneath layers of entitlement — to forgive this stubborn woman who
mistakenly believed that her seat in the Senate was earned through elections,
not erections. I remain Yours in eternal resistance, Senator Natasha H Akpoti
Uduaghan Unafraid, Unbought, and Unbroken.”
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