{"id":199352,"date":"2025-06-02T19:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-natasha-many-senators-enduring-what-made-me-speak-up-against-akpabio\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T19:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:27:58","slug":"nigeria-natasha-many-senators-enduring-what-made-me-speak-up-against-akpabio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-natasha-many-senators-enduring-what-made-me-speak-up-against-akpabio\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Natasha &#8211; Many Senators Enduring What Made Me Speak Up Against Akpabio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>Suspended Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, says her removal was not over sitting disagreement, but a premeditated move by Senate President Godswill Akpabio to silence her.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In an interview with media personality, Adeola Fayehun, Natasha alleged that her rights as a legislator were trampled upon, and accused Akpabio of acting beyond his powers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">She said there are many others who are quietly enduring what made her speak up against Nigeria&#8217;s number three citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020644.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspended Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, says her removal was not over sitting disagreement, but a premeditated move by Senate President Godswill Akpabio to silence her. In an interview with media personality, Adeola Fayehun, Natasha alleged that her rights as a legislator were trampled upon, and accused Akpabio of acting beyond his powers. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,23255,21273,22246,257,4687,393,9179,254,8676],"class_list":["post-199352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akpabio","tag-enduring","tag-natasha","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-senators","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speak"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}