Why IPU can’t help Natasha – Chair, Senate Interparliamentary Committee

Jimoh Ibrahim who is the Chairman of the Interparliamentary Committee in the Nigerian Senate said the petition filed by Senator Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan would eventually be dismissed. The Ondo South Senatorial District also said Akpoti-Uduaghan’s attendance at the IPU meeting held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday, was unauthorised and, therefore, illegal. Ibrahim, in a statement on Friday added that the IPU cannot treat Natasha’s petition becuase only countries, not individual lawmakers, hold membership in the IPU. According to him, this means that only a member-state can lodge complaint against another at the IPU.