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Suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has vowed to resume her duties in the Senate on Tuesday.
Akpoti-Uduaghan said her resumption was in line with a court decision.
She disclosed this in a chat with journalists while in her constituency for a training programme on Saturday.
The embattled lawmaker said the suspension limited her from performing her legislative duties.
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Natasha disclosed that she has official informed the Senate in writing about her intentions to resume.
She noted that despite the controversy surrounding the ruling of the Abuja Federal High Court, she will resume on Tuesday.
“I have pretty much two months more before the six months expire. However, I have written to the Senate again telling them that I’m resuming on the 22nd, which is on Tuesday, by the special grace of God.
“I will be there, because the court did make the decision on that,” she said.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio has lauded the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as a leader who served Nigeria without embezzling the nation’s treasury.
Akpabio made the remarks on Thursday at an expanded Federal Executive Council meeting held in Abuja in honour of Buhari.
The President of the Senate noted that even the former president’s critics would concede that he did not misappropriate public funds while in office.
He said, “Let us be honest, he was tough. He was a soldier who did not flinch under fire, a leader who did not flee from responsibility, and above all, a Nigerian whose loyalty to this nation was never up for sale.
“His toughness was born not out of pride but of a patriotism, a fierce, unrelenting belief that Nigeria, with all its challenges, was still worth fighting for. And yet some disagree with him.
