By; ADAMA JOHN, Lokoja.
The appeal court in Abuja Tuesday upheld the judgement of the Kogi state election petition tribunal that sacked Senator Sadiku Ohere representing Kogi Central Senatorial district of the state.
Delivering the judgement in Abuja, the court of appeal upheld the decision of the tribunal that declared Natasha Akpoti as the legitimate representative of Kogi Central.
It held that the appeal of Sadiku-Ohere challenging the judgment of the tribunal lacked merit.
Recall that the election petition tribunal sitting in Lokoja had earlier declared Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan as the winner of the February 25 Kogi Central Senatorial election.
Natasha H Akpoti was born on the 9th December,1979, she is the second of four children and the only daughter of a Nigerian father and a Ukrainian mother.
Her mother, Ludmila Kravchenk, is a Ukrainian from Rakitna in the region of Chernivtsi. Her father, Dr. Jimoh Abdul Akpoti is from Obeiba-Ihima, Kogi State.
She spent her early years in lhima, Okene Kogi State.
She lost her father in 1998 and the family had to relocate.
She studied at the University of Abuja from 2000 to 2004 and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree. She was called to the Nigeria bar in 2005 upon graduation from the Nigerian Law School in Abuja.
In 2011, she proceeded to the University of Dundee and graduated with a Masters of Business Administration in oil and gas management from the University of Dundee.
She is a mother of three kids.
On the 5th March, 2022, she married the Alema of Warri, Chief Emmanuel Uduaghan, in a ceremony at her native home, lhima.
