The Minister of Women Affairs, Imaan Suleiman Ibrahim, has pledged to step in and resolve the dispute between Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan and Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
Recall that the Senate’s Ethics, Privileges, and Code of Conduct committee recommended that the senator from Kogi be suspended for six months, and the Senate did just that on Thursday.
The committee attributed Natasha’s suspension to her breach of Senate regulations. Following a press conference on International Women’s Day, or IWD, the Minister responded to inquiries from State House Correspondents by calling the situation regrettable.
She said, “It’s an unfortunate incident that should not happen, just like you rightly said in the last Assembly we had nine senators that were women. In this Assembly, we have four. We don’t want to be losing any member in the Senate or House of Representatives. we want to increase the numbers.
“It is unfortunate but we’re going to be brokering peace. We will engage all the stakeholders to ensure that they temper justice with mercy. I was at the National Assembly yesterday, where they marked International Women’s Day, and the last thing the President of the senate said was that “we’re open to broker peace.”
“We’re going to be intermediary between the two parties to see that we broker peace, for peace to reign and we will continue to also sensitize, so we will like to work better together as women and men.”
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