By Jethro Ibileke
A group, the North Central Women Front (NCWF), has urged the Federal Government not to tread cautiously and not trample on the rights of citizens.
The group in a statement issued in Lafia on Saturday, and signed by the Chairperson, Mrs. Mary Adamu, described the recent case filed by the Federal Government against Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan as a desire for conquest and a bad way of maintaining or restoring stability, patriotism and morality among the people.
The group also advised the Federal Government not to provide a justification for anarchy.
According to the women, the lawsuit against Akpoti-Uduaghan was capable of sending wrong signals of political oppression of women in Nigeria.
“Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s rights are slowly extinguished. Her complaints, protests and appeals are now treated as seditious murmuring,” they said.
While urging President Bola Tinubu to prevent the 10th Senate from being ill-governed, the women advised him to go to the root of the matter involving the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
They further urged him not to yield to the temptation of oppressing women in the country.
Particularly, the women urged Tinubu to apply human wisdom by asking the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice to quickly withdraw the lawsuit from the court, in the spirit of sincere reconciliation and on the ground of morality.
“The problem in the Senate cannot be resolved in this manner. It is in going to the root that you will find the solution of a number of problems of the 10th Senate which the leadership cannot settle,” the statement concluded.
