Senate President Godswill Akpabio has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, demanding that suspended Kogi Central lawmaker Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan take down a sarcastic apology video shared on her social media platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Akpabio\u2019s legal team, headed by Senior Advocate of Nigeria Kehinde Ogunwumiju, filed a fresh application urging the court to compel Akpoti-Uduaghan to delete the post, arguing that it flouted a judicial directive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The application further requests that Akpoti-Uduaghan be ordered to remove the video from all her social media accounts, publish a formal written apology in two major national newspapers and submit an affidavit as proof of compliance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The move comes after Akpoti-Uduaghan posted a controversial video on April 27, in which she sarcastically “apologized” to Akpabio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the clip, she stated she was \u201csorry for the crime of maintaining dignity and self-respect\u201d and mockingly expressed regret for not letting the Senate President \u201chave his way\u201d with her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The video sparked widespread reactions online, with many interpreting it as a veiled dig at Akpabio amid their ongoing feud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tension between the two lawmakers stems from a heated disagreement over seating arrangements in the Senate chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Senate President Godswill Akpabio has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, demanding that suspended Kogi Central lawmaker Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan take down a sarcastic apology video shared on her social media platforms. Akpabio\u2019s legal team, headed by Senior Advocate of Nigeria Kehinde Ogunwumiju, filed a fresh application urging the court to compel Akpoti-Uduaghan to delete the post, arguing that it flouted a judicial directive. The application further requests that Akpoti-Uduaghan be ordered to remove the video from all her social media accounts, publish a formal written apology in two major national newspapers and submit an affidavit as proof of compliance. The move comes after Akpoti-Uduaghan posted a controversial video on April 27, in which she sarcastically “apologized” to Akpabio. In the clip, she stated she was \u201csorry for the crime of maintaining dignity and self-respect\u201d and mockingly expressed regret for not letting the Senate President \u201chave his way\u201d with her. The video sparked widespread reactions online, with many interpreting it as a veiled dig at Akpabio amid their ongoing feud. The tension between the two lawmakers stems from a heated disagreement over seating arrangements in the Senate chamber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25127,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25125\/revisions\/25127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}