Natasha Akpoti Sworn In As Senator

By Akinwale Kasali

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Candidate at the National Assembly Polls in the February 25th, 2023 Election, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has been sworn-in to represent Kogi Central Senatorial District at the Senate

The Clerk of the Senate, Chinedu Akubueze, administered the oath on Akpoti-Uduaghan.

This followed the judgement of the Appeal Court which on Tuesday, October 31, 2023, declared her the winner of the Feb. 25 poll.

The three-member panel, of the Abuja Division of tge Court, in its unanimous judgment, upheld the judgment of the state’s Election Petitions Tribunal and dismissed the appeal filed by Sen Abubakar Ohere of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Ohere had been declared the winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, after the election. But both the Election Petition Court and the Court of Appeal disagreed with INEC and declared Akpoti-Uduaghan duly elected.