Ekaette Akpabio, Senate President Godswill Akpabio’s wife has filed multiple lawsuits against Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, senator representing Kogi Central over alleged defamatory comments.
Gatekeepers News reports that Natasha had in an interview on Arise TV on Friday, alleged that her ordeal with Akpabio began after she declined his sexual advances.
Subsequently during an interview, the senate president’s wife attested to her husband’s discipline, adding that the senator’s allegations are false.
In a fundamental rights suit filed at Federal Capital Territory (FCT) high court, Ekaette said the “scandalous and salacious” comments made by Akpoti-Uduaghan have caused her and her children emotional and psychological abuse.
Akpabio’s wife asked the court to restrain Akpoti-Uduaghan from making further “spiteful” statements that infringe on her fundamental human rights.
The suit reads, “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.”
Ekaette said the Kogi senator’s comments
“damaged the reputation of the claimant and indeed her entire family, bringing them into disrepute and opprobrium.”
She asked the court to mandate Akpoti-Uduaghan to tender an apology to her family and publish it in two national newspapers.
Part of the suit reads, “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.”
