How Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan attended IPU meeting By Adakoriko Adaviriku Adumaza


Nigerian Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has revealed how she managed to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in New York, despite not being officially nominated by the Nigerian government. According to Akpoti-Uduaghan, she registered for the meeting online as a senator and secured her accreditation because she was already on IPU's mailing list as a past attendee ¹.


Akpoti-Uduaghan explained that she personally funded her trip to the global parliamentary gathering after receiving approval to attend. She also mentioned that her past participation in a meeting organized by the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) played a role in her accreditation.

Interestingly, this is not her first attendance at an IPU event. She had previously accompanied the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to the 148th IPU General Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, as part of Nigeria's official delegation.

Akpoti-Uduaghan clarified that she traveled to New York with a visa on her ordinary Nigerian passport and not with an official passport. She also described her suspension from the Senate as illegal, saying that it did not take away her legitimacy as an elected senator.

However, her six-month suspension explicitly prohibits her from identifying herself as a senator, both locally and internationally, during the suspension period. Despite this restriction, she insisted that she attended the IPU meeting in her official capacity and spoke as a legitimate representative of her people.

The Nigerian Senate is now seeking to probe how Akpoti-Uduaghan attended the meeting without being part of the official delegation from Nigeria. The Department of State Services (DSS) and the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) are investigating how she secured accreditation, who facilitated her trip, and whether her participation was orchestrated to embarrass the Nigerian government.

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