Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan
By Tony Nyong, Uyo
Protesting Akwa Ibom women have warned Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against abusing the Office Of Senate President, threatening to invoke Fatua on her.
The women protesters came to express anger over the accusation of sexual harassment made by Senator Akpoti -Uduaghan against Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
The allegation, the women described as a premeditated politically-motivated stunt to smear the number three citizen of Nigeria.
Armed with placards, the visibly angry women who held up traffic on major roads of Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital for several hours at weekend, said on issues like this, they (women) “normally apply the traditional way of assembling at a particular square naked in the middle of the night to invoke the spirits of unfaithful dead women to punish who is not telling the truth”.
Chanting solidarity songs: “Natasha, we no go gree, the insult is too much, we no go gree,” the women warned Senator Natasha against further abuse and denigration of the office of the Senate President, insisting that if the attack continues, they will have no other option than go spiritual.
Some of the placards read: “As Nigerian women, we respect our men, and our tradition,” and “Respect the office of the Senate President.”
Speaking to Journalists, one of the protesters, Lady Unyime Ukpong, explained that the protest became necessary “to disabuse the minds of some misguided Nigerians, ill – informed women and other citizens who may be swayed to swallow the lies couch in deep sentiments and emotions as truth.
“Senator Natasha, is a married woman like us, she’s out and sponsored by some political detractors to seek to bring down the Senate President through a trump-up, infantile and a deliberately whipped-up sentiment founded on lies to attract public sympathy.
“We are happy that what she publicly announced in the media has been challenged in courts, she will prove them with alibi in the courts of competent jurisdiction because this is the height of embarrassment that can’t be tolerated,” she stressed