{"id":5263,"date":"2025-03-24T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:36:08","slug":"breaking-inec-receives-petition-seeking-natashas-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/breaking-inec-receives-petition-seeking-natashas-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: INEC receives petition seeking Natasha\u2019s recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5264\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/OIF-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/OIF-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/OIF-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/OIF.jpeg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Natasha<\/p>\n<p>By Publisher<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kindly share:<\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,\u00a0 on Monday received the petition seeking the recall process of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary to the commission, Rose Oriaran-Anthony, received the petition on behalf of the Commission.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This was contrary to a court order, barring INEC from receiving the petition.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was reportedly submitted with over 250,000 signatures from constituents, out of about 480,000 registered voters in her district.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that protesters had faulted the recall process, contending that the organisers had tricked the people to come for empowerment programme where they were deceived to write down their names without telling them that it was for the recall of the lawmaker, who represents Kogi Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan had been suspended earlier for six month, following a recommendation by the Senate Committee on Ethics, over alleged\u00a0 misconduct and \u201cunruly and disruptive\u201d behaviour, after she had accused Godswill Akpabio,\u00a0 the Senate President of sexual harassment.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha By Publisher Kindly share: The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,\u00a0 on Monday received the petition seeking the recall process&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1244],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-natasha-akpoti-uduaghans-recall"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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