Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central, has raised the alarm over the dramatic shrinking of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the Nigerian Senate, revealing that the party’s representation has plummeted from 37 to just six lawmakers in less than three years.
In a candid video from 1:54 shared by Platinum TV on Monday, March 23, 2026, the senator reflected on her turbulent journey in the 10th Assembly and the psychological toll of watching her party empty itself into rival platforms.
Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, who joined the Senate in late November 2023 six months after its official inauguration due to a prolonged legal battle over her election noted that the landscape she entered has been completely terraformed by political realignments.
“I would say to my fellow senators that when I joined the Senate we were 37 PDP senators, but today we are only six. I tell you, it wasn’t easy. It was almost like, at every sitting, we were expecting senators to decamp,” she lamented.
The senator described an atmosphere of constant uncertainty, where the remaining PDP lawmakers lived in anticipation of which colleague would be the next to announce their departure during plenary.
The mass exodus, which has seen heavyweights like Aminu Tambuwal and others defect to the APC or the rising African Democratic Congress (ADC) in recent weeks, is being fueled by what Akpoti-Uduaghan identifies as a systemic failure within the PDP’s top brass.
Despite the deliberate marginalization she claims to face including recent disputes over her membership in the North Central Development Commission committee the senator remains defiant.
“It’s not been easy. We’ve been on the news back and forth, and that has kept a lot of people wondering what befalls the PDP,” she added, expressing hope that the upcoming National Convention on March 29, 2026, would serve as a turning point for the embattled party. Read_More…