{"id":2998,"date":"2025-03-26T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T08:58:33","slug":"akpabio-natasha-senate-hearing-turns-chaotic-as-nwaebonyi-ezekwesili-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/akpabio-natasha-senate-hearing-turns-chaotic-as-nwaebonyi-ezekwesili-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Akpabio- Natasha: Senate hearing turns chaotic as Nwaebonyi, Ezekwesili clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<h2>By George Mgbeleke<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Senate on Tuesday was thrown into a chaos following\u00a0 a\u00a0 heated exchange of words between the deputy Whip of the Senate, Senator Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, representing Ebonyi North, and former Minister of Education Oby Ezekwesili.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3000\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3000\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3000\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot_20250326-094337_1-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot_20250326-094337_1-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot_20250326-094337_1.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Minister of Education,Oby Ezekwesili Ezekwesili,<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The chaotic situation occurred during a Senate committee\u00a0 on ethics, privileges, and public petitions hearing on the alledged sexual harassment claims by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The altercation occurred as the committee deliberated on a fresh petition filed by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan against Senate President Godswill Akpabio was about to commence deliberation on the matter.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Ezekwesili attended the session alongside Abiola Akiode, counsel to Akpoti-Uduaghan, and petitioner Zubairu Yakubu.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions arose when Yakubu attempted to speak while the committee chairman, Neda Imaseun, was addressing the panel.<\/p>\n<p>He was instructed to mute his microphone, prompting Ezekwesili to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>However, Nwaebonyi who was present as a witness for Akpabio interjected, leading to a sharp exchange between him and the former minister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Compose yourself and stop making noise,\u201d Ezekwesili told Nwaebonyi.<\/p>\n<p>Angered by her remark, the Senator fired back: \u201cYou\u2019re a fool. What do you mean? Why are you talking to me like that? I will not take it. You\u2019re an insult to womanhood. People like you cannot be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ezekwesili responded by calling him a \u201chooligan\u201d, escalating the confrontation and briefly halting proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Following the disruption, order was restored, and Imaseun announced that the case was now before a court, leading to an abrupt adjournment of the hearing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Mgbeleke The Senate on Tuesday was thrown into a chaos following\u00a0 a\u00a0 heated exchange of words between the deputy Whip of the Senate, Senator Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, representing Ebonyi North, and former Minister of Education Oby Ezekwesili. The chaotic situation occurred during a Senate committee\u00a0 on ethics, privileges, and public petitions hearing on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1916,1914,1915,642,1400,384],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-crime","tag-abrupt","tag-argument","tag-chaotic","tag-exchange","tag-hearing","tag-public"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}