Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court Abuja has ordered the Senate to recall the suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, describing the six-month suspension imposed on the lawmaker by the Senate as excessive.
She also faulted the provision in Chapter 8 of the Senate Standing Rules, as well as Section 14 of the Legislative Houses, Powers, and Privileges Act, stressing that the two pieces of legislation failed to specify the maximum period that a serving lawmaker could be suspended from office.
Justice Nyako equally dismissed Akpabio’s contention that the court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the suit, which he said bordered on an internal affair of the Senate.
