Nigeria, July 23 -- Former Labour Party's vice presidential candidate Datti Baba-Ahmed on Tuesday, criticised the zealous efforts to prevent Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from entering the National Assembly premises on Tuesday.

Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan, who was suspended by the Senate in March for six months, had vowed to resume following the judgement of the Federal High Court in Abuja which expressly described the six-month suspension as unconstitutional.

The Senate had written back to the senator to inform her that its interpretation of the judgement, which was controversially framed like an advisory recommending her reinstatement, did not suggest that the court ordered her to be recalled.

Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan, accompanied ...