Protesting Akwa Ibom State women have warned Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against abusing the office of the Senate President, threatening to invoke Fatwa on her.
The women protesters came to express anger over the accusation of sexual harassment made against Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
The women described the allegation 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, 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 Akpoti-Uduaghan 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.
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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 newsmen, 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.”
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