Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has filed a defamation lawsuit against the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, following a dispute over the reassignment of her Senate seat.
Reports indicate that Akpoti-Uduaghan objected to the relocation of her seat after a reshuffle caused by opposition lawmakers defecting to the majority wing, which led to a confrontation between her and the Senate President.
However, the Senate President and Mfon Patrick, the Senate President’s Senior Legislative Aide, were named as the second and third defendants in a lawsuit filed on February 25, 2025, before the Federal Capital Territory High Court.
The case, marked CV/737/25, alleges that defamatory statements were made by the Senate President and later published by his aide on Facebook.
Uduaghan, through her lawyer, Victor Giwa, said that defamatory statements were made by the Senate President and published by his aide on .
According to him, the post, titled “Is the Local Content Committee of the Senate Natasha’s Birthright?” included a statement suggesting that Akpoti-Uduaghan believed being a lawmaker was only about “pancaking her face and wearing transparent outfits to the chambers.”
Giwa described the post as defamatory, provocative, and disparaging, arguing that it damaged her reputation among her colleagues and the public.
“A DECLARATION that the words, ‘It is bottled anger by the Kogi lawmaker, who knows nothing about legislative rules. She thinks being a lawmaker is all about pancaking her face and wearing transparent outfits to the chambers,’ used and written by the third defendant at the prompting of the first and second defendants, is defamatory and intended to cause public opprobrium and disaffection toward the claimant.”
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