Mrs. Unoma Godswill Akpabio, the wife of the Senate President, has filed several lawsuits against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central after she accused her husband of sexual harassment.
After her spouse was accused of sexual harassment, she launched a defamation and fundamental rights lawsuit against Natasha-Akpoti in the Federal Capital Territory’s High Court.
Anoma requested N250 billion in general damages in the lawsuits.
In the Senate, Natasha-Akpoti had accused Akpabio of mistreating her because she wouldn’t have sex with him.
She described how, despite her husband’s present, the Senate President made multiple sexual advances at her.
However, Anioma rejected her assertions, claiming that she was fabricating information and using it for her own benefit.
Yesterday, during a press conference, Anioma threatened legal actions against Natasha.
Section 34(1)(a) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Articles 4 and 5 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification And Enforcement Act) Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 were the legal grounds for the basic rights claim (claim No: CV/814/25).
Mrs. Unoma Godswill Akpabio, the wife of the Senate President, has filed several lawsuits against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of Kogi Central after she accused her husband of sexual harassment.
After her spouse was accused of sexual harassment, she launched a defamation and fundamental rights lawsuit against Natasha-Akpoti in the Federal Capital Territory’s High Court.
Anoma requested N250 billion in general damages in the lawsuits.
In the Senate, Natasha-Akpoti had accused Akpabio of mistreating her because she wouldn’t have sex with him.
She described how, despite her husband’s present, the Senate President made multiple sexual advances at her.
However, Anioma rejected her assertions, claiming that she was fabricating information and using it for her own benefit.
Yesterday, during a press conference, Anioma threatened legal actions against Natasha.
“AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Respondent from making further inciteful, scandalous, and spiteful statements that have caused the Applicant and her children emotional and psychological abuse and living under constant threat and fear of their lives.
“AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Respondent, whether by themselves, their agents, privies, or whosoever from further inciteful, scandalous, and spiteful statements that have caused the Applicant and her children emotional and psychological abuse and living under constant threat and fear of their lives or in any other manner infringing on their fundamental rights.
“AN ORDER awarding the sum of N250,000,000,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Billion Naira only) as exemplary, punitive, aggravated and general damages against the Respondent for her infringement of the fundamental rights of the Applicant alongside such further or other Orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstance.”
Additionally, in a separate defamation lawsuit (Suit No: CV/816/25), Mrs. Akpabio seeks: “A DECLARATION that the Defendant’s act of claiming on national television, that the Claimant’s husband, who is the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made sexual advances at her, without any proof of same, has damaged the reputation of the Claimant and indeed her entire family, bringing them into disrepute and opprobrium.
“AN ORDER OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT mandating the Defendant to issue a formal written retraction of the defamatory words and tender an unconditional apology to the Claimant and her family, to be published in 2 (two) nationally-read newspapers to wit: The Guardian and This Day Newspapers.
“AN ORDER OF THIS HONOURABLE COURT compelling the Defendant to pay to the Claimant the sum of N1,000,000,000.00 (One Billion Naira only) as punitive and exemplary damages for the ruinous effect of the Defendant’s defamatory words on the Claimant’s family’s reputation.
“AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Defendant from further uttering any defamatory words or causing to be uttered or spread, any defamatory words against the reputation of the Claimant’s family.”