The Office of the Senate President says Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan is misleading the public by claiming that Senator Godswill Akpabio only just filed a multi-billion-naira defamation suit against her. The statement, issued by Jackson Udom, Special Assistant on Media to the Senate President, says her claim is false and aimed at distorting facts already before the court.
According to Mediaplusng.com, Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan had accused Senator Akpabio of sexual misconduct without providing any evidence before the Senate Committee or any competent authority. The Senate President, the statement explains, exercised his constitutional right by filing the suit over three months ago, not recently as she alleged.
Mediaplusng.com reports that progress on the suit slowed due to normal judicial procedures. The court’s bailiff attempted multiple times to serve Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan personally, but the attempts failed due to what the affidavit describes as her deliberate evasion. The court later approved substituted service in November.
The statement says her social-media commentary is an attempt to sway public opinion rather than face the case legally. It adds that her conduct mirrors her reaction during her six-month Senate suspension, which she publicly criticised but eventually served in full.
The Office of the Senate President challenges Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan to present the evidence she claims to have before the court instead of seeking online sympathy. It stresses that the law is driven by facts, proof, and due process not emotion or social-media attention.
