Senate President Godswill Akpabio‘s Particular Assistant, Jeff Onyema, has alleged that Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan padded the price range by ₦30 billion as Chairperson of the Native Content material Committee.
Naija Information experiences that Onyema stated the sexual harassment allegation the Kogi Central Senator made in opposition to Akpabio was as a result of she was faraway from the Native Content material Committee.
Addressing newsmen on Tuesday, throughout a pro-Akpabio protest in Abuja, Onyema claimed that Senator Natasha, in a cellphone name, demanded her reinstatement within the Native Contents Committee as a situation to handle the disaster between her and the Senate President.
He dismissed the sexual harassment allegation in opposition to the Senate President. He challenged the Kogi Central Senator to current proof to again her allegation.
His phrases: “We’re gathered right here to help the Senate President. Folks can see that the Nigerians got here out en masse. They got here out each feminine and male. They got here out to help a standard transformer, which is the Senator Godswill Akpabio. You understand, human beings are completely different. You possibly can see the allegation that the lady gave to Senator Akpabio, there is no such thing as a strategy to show it. Akpabio has been a person that we all know greater than 20 years.
“This can be a chief from the Niger Delta. He’s a person that could be a buddy to the ladies. He’s a person that could be a buddy to the moms, the younger women. No one has come to say this. The rationale why this lady got here up with this agenda, she has been within the Committee of Native Content material and he or she padded cash, 30 billion, in her committee. Due to what’s going on within the Senate, they must ask her to step down.
“You possibly can see there was a cellphone name she made, that if in any respect they might name her again to native content material, the problem would simply die. And he or she doesn’t have any proof to return and say that Akpabio did this or coming to molest her. So Nigeria ought to sit and see the reality. They’re now telling her to return and apologize. And he or she nonetheless, you understand, her ego continues to be a lot. She doesn’t have something to supply.
“Please, I’m addressing ladies. They need to keep straight like moms. They need to not help this lady. However you probably have one thing to supply, are available in public and say it out. You say you might have your proof, we’re nonetheless ready so that you can convey your proof to indicate Nigeria. And we, the Niger Delta individuals, we from the Southeast, we from the South South, we from the North, we from the Center Belt, we from the North Central, we’re all supporting Akpabio.”