Nigeria, March 26 -- For Hadiza Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the distinguished senator representing Kogi Central in the National Assembly, the battles are closing in on all sides. Her suspension at the senate still stands illegal and political as it is. But she has not been lying down. Not at all. She has made her case against the leadership of the senate on various international platforms. She has remained unwavering in her belief that she was sexually harassed by Godswill Akpabio, the senate president.

While the senate, increasingly discredited with every move it makes, hurriedly found a hangar in its rules book to slam her with a six-months' suspension, many Nigerians believe that her allegations against the senate president hold water. ...