ABUJA, Nigeria – In a pointed and satirical move, suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, posted a letter of apology on her official Facebook page, mocking Senate President Godswill Akpabio and his leadership.
The apology, dripping with sarcasm, came after her suspension from the Senate, which she attributes to her refusal to comply with personal demands from Akpabio.
In the letter, Akpoti-Uduaghan apologised for what she described as her “crime of maintaining dignity and self-respect” in the Senate, suggesting that legislative success under Akpabio’s leadership relied less on merit and more on personal compliance.
“It is with the deepest sarcasm and utmost theatrical regret that I tender this apology for the grievous crime of possessing dignity and self-respect in your most exalted presence,” she wrote.
“I have reflected extensively on my unforgivable failure to recognize that legislative success in certain quarters is apparently not earned through merit, but through the ancient art of compliance — of the very personal kind.”
The suspended senator then went on to claim that her refusal to yield to inappropriate sexual advances allegedly made by Akpabio was a key factor in her suspension.
She accused the Senate President of treating her rejection of such advances as a violation of unwritten rules benefiting certain men’s entitlement to power.
“How remiss of me not to understand that my refusal to indulge your… ‘requests’ was not merely a personal choice, but a constitutional violation of the unwritten laws of certain men’s entitlement,” Akpoti-Uduaghan wrote.
“Truly, I must apologise for prioritising competence over capitulation, vision over vanity, and the people’s mandate over private dinners behind closed doors.”
The senator sarcastically expressed regret for disrupting the “natural order of quid pro quo” within the Senate, saying she was responsible for “legislation delayed, tempers flared, and the tragic bruising of egos so large they require their own postcodes.”
In a final jab, she humbly requested Akpabio’s forgiveness, writing, “Please find it in your magnanimous heart — somewhere buried deep beneath layers of entitlement — to forgive this stubborn woman who mistakenly believed that her seat in the Senate was earned through elections, not erections.”
