Kingibe Confirms Oshiomhole’s Forgery Claim In Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan Suspension Saga

Despite insistence by the leadership of the Senate that no Senator’s signature was forged in the suspension saga of Kogi Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan,  the Senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Ireti Kingibe, has maintained that she neither saw nor signed the investigation report.

 Six months suspension were clamped on Akpoti-Uduaghan, in February 2025, for breaching Senate rules.

Senator Adams Oshiomhole, who earlier revealed the forgery scandal, later recanted.

He had disclosed in a televised interview that a senator (Kingibe) had informed him in 2025 that the signatures of some senators believed to have signed the report were forged or attached without their consent.

Kingibe, on the other hand, confirmed that Oshiomhole’s comments were true, insisting that she did not sign the report.

Speaking during an Arise News interview, Kingibe disclosed, “I never saw the report that led to Natasha’s suspension. I was at a retreat. I had earlier stated that I was there with three or four other senators who are members of the committee.”

The investigation that led to Akpoti-Uduaghan’s suspension was conducted by the Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, chaired by Senator Neda Imaseun.

Kingibe stated that although she signed the attendance register at the committee’s meeting and later left for what she described as a more important hearing on the tax reform bill, she never saw the committee’s final report.

The senator noted, “We attended the Committee on Petitions and Public Complaints, signed the attendance register, and I later left for the tax reform retreat, which I considered more important at the time.

“It affects my constituents much more than disciplining a senator, and I figured that the other people who were not part of that committee would take care of it.”

Findings, however, indicated that Kingibe’s name and signature appeared as number 21 on the final report, which she has now denied signing, further deepening the confusion.