“No Senator Complained To Me About Forged Signature – Oshiomhole Makes U-turn On Natasha’s suspension, Apologises

By Ayodele Oni

Chairman, Senate Committee on Interior, Adams Oshiomhole, APC, Edo North has recanted saying no Senator complained to him that his or her signature was forged during the suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, PDP, Kogi Central.

He maintained that he never alleged that signatures were forged during the process.

Oshiomole had been quoted as saying in one of the interviews that some senators, including Senator Ireti Kingibe, informed him that they did not sign the committee report even though their names appeared on the document.

“If he said that, yes. Because there are even people who claimed that their signatures were forged under the suspension document, people like Senator Ireti Kingibe.

“She told me, ‘But I didn’t sign that report. But my name was published,’” Oshiomhole said.

A statement however by Senator Oshiomhole  read: “My attention has been brought to an obvious misrepresentation of the statement I made during the course of my interview on AIT “Politics Today” broadcast on Monday 15th June 2026.

“To set the records straight, I wish to make the following clarifications.

‘The insinuation that I said signatures of Senators were forged is a complete misrepresentation of what I actually said.

“I agree absolutely with the spokesperson of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Yemi Adaramodu, that no signature of Senators was forged in Natasha Akpoti’s suspension.

“This is because, no Senator complained to me that his or her signature was forged.

“The only comment I made is that one Senator, who is a member of the Committee claimed that the signatures of attendance of some Senators were attached to the final report.

“Any suggestion to the effect that I alleged that any Senator’s signature was forged is completely untrue and should be disregarded.

“As far as I am concerned, the issue of suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has been put to rest and the Senate has since moved on.

“The context in which I made a comment on the Senator Natasha Akpoti’s issue was the AIT interviewer’s claim that Senate Leader Distinguished Senator Bamidele Opeyemi referred to the matter as the ‘lowest point of the 3 years of the 10th Senate’ to which I replied that ‘if indeed the Senate Leader said so, yes it should be taken seriously, because he is not given to frivolities.’

“Once again, I emphasise that no Senator told me that his or her signature was forged.

“Finally, I regret if my comments may have caused embarrassment to any Senator or the 10th Senate as an institution.”