The police Tuesday fired teargas at Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s supporters, who had gathered at the National Assembly to welcome her back from a six-month Senate suspension.
Akpoti-Uduaghan and her supporters marched from the FCT High Court in Maitama, Abuja, where she appeared earlier in the morning for a criminal defamation case against her, to the National Assembly.
The supporters, who were mostly people from her constituency in Kogi state, included human rights activist Aisha Yesufu.
They departed the court in Maitama at about 12.00 p.m., waving the Nigerian flag and chanting solidarity songs to the beats of drummers who were part of the procession from the court to the National Assembly.
They arrived at the National Assembly gate in the Three Arms Zone of the capital city at 12:45 p.m., after a several kilometres walk from the court in Maitama.
Akpoti-Uduaghan was allowed into the National Assembly premises with a few aides.
Some of the supporters were allowed entry at the first gate of the National Assembly, while others were shut out.
At 12.50 p.m., the police officers fired teargas canisters to disperse the crowd of supporters.
(Premium Times)
