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Natasha outsmarts Kogi govt, Police; ‘drops’ from sky to jubilant crowds

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In a spectacular display of defiance, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan turned the Kogi State Government and the Nigerian Police into laughingstocks as she bypassed their roadblocks and curfews by dropping in—literally—via helicopter to a rapturous welcome from her supporters.

Despite desperate attempts to stop her homecoming rally—including a "security" ban on gatherings, a sudden Okehi LGA curfew, and police warnings—Natasha simply took to the skies, leaving the flustered state authorities scrambling. As government officials presumably stood guard at empty checkpoints, she descended in a white helicopter, sending her ecstatic constituents into a frenzy.

"Nobody and nothing can stop me from coming home. I’m an Ebira person; this is my land," she declared in Ebira, mocking the failed blockade. "I’m the daughter of the late Jimoh Abdul Akpoti. I know my roots; I’m not a bastard, and I’m not afraid of anybody."

The state government, led by Governor Usman Ododo and his predecessor Yahaya Bello, had thrown everything at stopping her—public rally bans, phantom "security concerns," even a shameless police advisory urging her to cancel her Sallah celebration.

But Natasha, ever the strategist, reframed the event as a simple festive gathering, leaving the government looking both tyrannical and incompetent.

"Yesterday, we heard rallies were banned, roads would be blocked, convoys stopped," she taunted. "But this isn’t politics—it’s Sallah! Since when did celebrating with my people become a crime?"

Her triumphant return comes amid a broader political witch hunt, including a dubious six-month Senate suspension (orchestrated by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, whom she has accused of sexual harassment) and a manufactured "recall" effort.

Yet, as the state’s heavy-handed tactics backfired spectacularly, one thing became clear: Natasha doesn’t just play the game—she rewrites the rules.

While Kogi’s rulers and the Police fumed on the ground, Natasha soared above them—both literally and politically!

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