I Almost Got Natasha’s Treatment In 2018 For Disclosing Senators’ Allowances But…Shehu Sani 

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By Kolawole Ojebisi 

A former lawmaker representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has said he nearly got suspended for six months in the Red Chamber for disclosing the remuneration of federal legislators in 2018.

Sani made this claim in a post published on his X handle on Thursday evening. He said he would have been suspended if not for the “immediate rescue” of Bukola Saraki, then senate president, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.

The former senator from Kaduna stated that any senator who “blows the whistle too loudly” will have to face the consequences of their actions alone, without support from fellow members.

“When I publicly disclosed the salaries and allowances of the senators, it nearly earned me a SIX months suspension if not for divine intervention, Saraki and Ekwerenmadu’s immediate rescue,” he wrote Just know that if you are there and you blow whistle too loudly,you will be “On your Own”,no…— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) March 6, 2025

Recall that in March 2018, Sani, who was elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 general elections, revealed that he and his colleagues received N13.5 million monthly as running cost.

He also added that each senator received N200 million as constituency project fund.

The former senator’s revelation was met with strong disapproval from many of his colleagues, as the salaries of federal lawmakers are usually kept confidential.

Though he didn’t specifically mention names, Sani’s comments come on the heels of the decision of the senate to suspend Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the senator representing Kogi central, for six months.

The decision followed the adoption of the report by the senate committee on ethics, privileges, and public petitions.

The Kogi senator was suspended following an altercation she had with Senate President Godswill Akpabio on February 20.

On February 28, in an interview on Arise TV, the Kogi senator alleged that her trouble in the senate began after she rejected sexual advances from the senate president.

Shehu Sani, who is often referred to as an activist, may be advising Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan that the National Assembly is no place for militant advocacy or confrontation which many believe the Kogi lawmaker’s wont.

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