The Senate has referred the lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, to the Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions for disciplinary review after she sparred with Senate President Godswill Akpabio over seat allocation.

The decision was reached during plenary on Tuesday following a voice vote after lawmakers revisited the controversy surrounding the recent altercation between Akpoti-Uduaghan and the Senate leadership over seat allocation, with lawmakers underpinning the need to uphold parliamentary rules and decorum.

In a motion raised under Order 1(b) and 10, condemning what he described as Akpoti-Uduaghan’s “extreme intransigence” during the Senate session on February 20, Senate spokesperson, Senator Yemi Adaramodu, revived the saga on the floor, stating that “from that Thursday, the media was awash with this issue and I had to work on mending the perception of the 10th Senate. The Senate is not a platform for content creation but a place for lawmaking and oversight functions.”