While reacting to Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s allegation against Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Arise TV on Tuesday March 4, 2025, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa said women can’t claimed to be sexually harassed when they are elected into the Senate.

The former lawmaker for Cross River South Senatorial District believes it is a sign of weakness for female Senators to complain about sexual harassment.

She maintained that female Senators should see themselves as equal lawmakers to their male counterparts because winning Senatorial elections is not an easy task.

She said; “By the time you contest elections and get to Senate, you have passed that stage of your life being sexually harassed. You go there to serve, and you are all equal in that place. And again, it shows weakness, you don’t allow it. Sexual harassment cannot happen in the Senate.

“I am not staying that lady (Natasha) is lying, but when you get to the Senate, you’re there as a person. You are not there as a woman. At that stage in politics, If you come out and say someone is sexually harassing you, it is a weakness.

“I’m saying that it does not, it would not happen in the Senate, and it should not happen in the Senate and again, I’m not here to defend anybody in politics”.