In a video clip sent to journalists covering the Red Chamber, Deputy Director, Sergeant-at-Arms, Alabi Adedeji, who unsealed the Kogi senator’s office, said he was directed to unseal the office by the top hierarchy of the legislature. Ozekhome described the situation as an affront to representative democracy, adding, “You cannot punish a constituency because of a legislator. It stated that she was not suspended for her sexual harassment allegations against Senate President Godswill Akpabio, but for gross misconduct and violation of Senate rules. She also thanked professional and labour bodies such as the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) and the Nigeria Labour Congress for their statements of solidarity, adding that mounting public pressure forced Senate leadership to reverse course. We survived the blockade of roads and waterways to Kogi that forced us to fly in by helicopter.