Senate President Chief Godswill Akpabio has clarified that
the fresh persistence use of social media led to his bringing N40Bn defamation
suit against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
In a statement issued by his media office, the Senate
President said contrary to the claims of Kogi state senator, the suit was
instituted more than three months ago but was not made public because Natasha
was allegedly evading service of the court summons.
Akpabio said that Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan had intensified
making of grave and unsubstantiated accusations capable of inflicting severe
reputational damage, hence, the court case as his constitutional right to seek
legal redress.
The statement read in part “On 5 December 2025, Senator
Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan again resorted to social media to claim incorrectly and
misleadingly that His Excellency, the President of the Senate, Distinguished
Senator Godswill Akpabio, had only just filed a multi-billion-naira defamation
suit against her over her unfounded allegations of sexual misconduct.
“These allegations, as the public is well aware, have never
been supported by a single shred of evidence before the Senate Committee or
before any competent authority.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the facts are clear,
verifiable, and already before the court.
“Following Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan’s grave and
unsubstantiated accusations capable of inflicting severe reputational damage,
Senator Akpabio exercised his constitutional right to seek legal redress.
‘The suit was filed over three months ago. Its progress was
temporarily delayed by routine administrative processes and the normal judicial
procedures.
“Upon the resumption of judicial activities on the file,
several attempts were made by the court’s bailiff to personally serve Senator
Akpoti-Uduaghan with the originating processes.
“Each attempt failed due to her deliberate evasion of
service, as deposed to under oath in the bailiff’s affidavit now before the
court. Only after these repeated evasions did the court, in November this year
granted the application for substituted service.
“Her claim that the matter was “just filed” is therefore
false, misleading, and intended to distort public understanding of the case.
“We reiterate that legal disputes are resolved in
courtrooms, not through orchestrated narratives and staged outrage on
social-media platforms.
“The online applause Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan habitually
seeks cannot replace credible evidence, legal procedure, or judicial scrutiny.
“This behaviour is consistent with her pattern during her
six-month Senate suspension, an entirely lawful disciplinary measure she sought
to delegitimise through digital agitation, only to ultimately serve the
suspension in full.
“It is time for Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan to present the
“evidence” she claims to possess before a court of competent jurisdiction,
rather than relying on sensationalised commentary designed solely to attract
sympathy and obscure the facts.
“The law is guided by proof, procedure, and due process, not
sentiment, not emotion, and certainly not social-media theatrics. She is
advised to properly instruct her lawyers, file her defence, and finally provide
the evidence she purports to have for the baseless allegations she has peddled
over this matter.
“This is her golden opportunity. The public, the media, and
the legal community now await her defence to the defamatory claims of the
plaintiff”, the statement said.
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