The suspended lawmaker representing Kogi Central, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has reacted to the claims of United States-based activist Dr. Sandra Duru, popularly known as Professor Mgbeke, saying all her allegations were false.
The lawmaker made the clarification in a statement issued by her media aide, Israel Arogbonlo.
Earlier, Mgbeke released shocking evidence of her exclusive phone conversations where she claimed Akpoti-Uduaghan lied against the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, regarding the controversial sexual advances allegation.
The activist, who made the revelation during a Facebook livestream session monitored by our correspondent on Thursday night, added that she also tried to induce her with N200 million to falsely accuse the former Akwa Ibom governor of organ harvesting.
While stressing that the call logs and recorded conversations in her possession are convincing enough to prove that the lawmaker lied about the sexual harassment allegation levelled against Akpabio, Mgbeke also decried that it was wicked of her to attempt to link him with the death of a young girl who died a few years ago.
In the one-hour, eight-minute live broadcast, the activist claimed that the suspended Senator was out to destroy men, confirming that she had no actual evidence to defend her harassment claim against Akpabio.
But Akpoti-Uduaghan maintained her innocence, claiming all the recorded conversations played in the live stream were manipulated and could never have come from her.
The lawmaker also alleged that she had just recently stumbled on the identity of the activists-cum-journalist.
She said, “I have carefully watched a live stream which was done by one Sandra C Duru on Facebook on May 1st, 2025. The content of the live stream, including the voice effect credited to me, is entirely untrue and most manipulated to serve Sandra Duru’s ulterior motive of playing the script of Senator Godswill Akpabio.
“To the best of my knowledge, those words used against Dr Oby Ezekwesili, Dr Abiola, FIDA and fellow Nigerians as ‘Gullible and Hungry’ are crazy falsehoods and did not emanate from the natural cause of any contact involving me.
“It was from recent research that I also found out that the person who now represents herself as Sandra Duru is the same person who operated as Prof. Mgbeke on Facebook. In the nearest of time, I will respond to the unfounded allegations made therein.”
