Legal analyst Dayo Fadugba has condemned Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s protest against her six-month suspension from the Nigerian Senate, describing her actions as “self-serving drama” aimed at drawing attention on social media.

 

Fadugba made the remarks on Friday while analyzing the senator’s recent appeal against a Federal High Court judgment that upheld her suspension. In the appeal, Senator Natasha’s legal team raised 30 grounds, with a focus on the court’s alleged failure to issue a clear directive for her recall to the Senate.

 

One of the central arguments—Ground 23—claims that the trial judge erred by not explicitly nullifying the Senate’s decision, despite acknowledging that the suspension exceeded constitutional boundaries.

 

“The judge merely suggested that the Senate should recall her, not that it must,” Fadugba stated. “There was no binding order requiring her reinstatement, so the claim that the Senate defied the court is unfounded.”

 

He went further to criticize Senator Natasha’s return attempt to the Senate chamber, labeling it a “staged spectacle” orchestrated to win public sympathy rather than uphold due process. Her dramatic entrance, accompanied by supporters and media, was, according to him, “inappropriate and disrespectful to the decorum of the Senate.”

 

“This is not how a senator should behave. Such conduct could lead to further disciplinary action,” Fadugba warned.

 

He urged the public to allow the legal process to run its course without politicizing judicial proceedings for personal or political advantage.