An activist, Dr. Sandra Duru, has claimed that the sexual allegation brought against Senate President Godswill Akpabio by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was targeted at preventing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from being re-elected for a second term.
This is even as Duru, also known as Professor Mgbeke, said she had submitted evidence of phone conversations between her and the suspended Kogi Central Senator to relevant authorities in the United States and other parts of the world for forensic analysis.
But in a swift response yesterday, Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan described Duru’s allegations against her as unfounded.
She also disowned the voice effects used in a livestreamed video Duru posted on Facebook, saying they are false.
Duru, an activist based in the United States, who made her claims in a Facebook live broadcast session on Thursday night, had also alleged that Akpoti-Uduaghan also offered her N200 million to accuse the Senate President of organ harvesting in order to link him with the death of a young girl who died a few years ago, as she was not getting anywhere with her sexual harassment allegation.
She called on international security agencies, which she claimed she had petitioned, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Nigeria Police Force to probe Natasha’s false allegations and what she claimed to know about the murder of Umoren, having kept mute for years before allegedly attempting to hang the death on Akpabio.
The activist said: “The Nigeria Police should handle the case of Natasha and her false allegations. She said she wants to force the Senate President to step down so that they will have their way to remove what they call Yoruba government. Umoren died in 2021. Autopsy was done and there was no organ harvesting”.
“I already wrote the international agencies about a senator that claimed to have known something about the murder of a young lady and she kept it to herself.She must explain what she knows about the death.
“She said the reason for the fight was not really about the Senate President but about the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, that they don’t want Yoruba government to go beyond four years.
She said no sexual harassment evidence of any kind,” Duru said.
According to her, during one of their conversations, Akpoti-Uduaghan allegedly revealed that she had been promised the governorship of Kogi State or Minister of Petroleum Resources if she could accomplish the mission of getting the Senate President out.
While displaying some of the evidence, she said the conversations revealed the lies behind the sexual harassment allegation levelled against Senate President Akpabio by Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan.
