Ekaette Unoma Akpabio, spouse of the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, has filed two fits in opposition to the Senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for accusing her husband of sexual harassment.
In a swimsuit filed on the Federal Capital Territory Excessive Court docket, Abuja, Mrs Akpabio accused the lawmaker of alleged defamation and violation of her elementary human rights.
Within the elementary rights violation with Swimsuit No: CV/814/25), Mrs Akpabio accused the senator of constructing false and scandalous statements that triggered emotional trauma for her and her kids, leaving them in concern for his or her lives.
She requested the courtroom to declare the statements a violation of her proper to dignity below the Structure and the African Constitution on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
She additionally demanded ₦250 billion in compensation and a perpetual injunction to cease Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan from making additional damaging claims.
Mrs Akpabio asks the courtroom to make, “A DECLARATION that the allegations made by the Respondent on the ground of the Senate on the twentieth of February 2025 and subsequent scandalous and salacious allegations on Come up Information TV by the Respondent, represent a flagrant violation of the elemental rights of the Applicant assured below Part 34[1] [A] of The Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 [As Amended], Article 4 & 5 of The African Constitution on Human And Peoples Rights [Ratification And Enforcement Act] Cap. A9, Legal guidelines of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and Part 14 of the Violence In opposition to Individuals [prohibition] Act, 2015.
“AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Respondent from making additional inciteful, scandalous, and spiteful statements which have triggered the Applicant and her kids emotional and psychological abuse and residing below fixed menace and concern of their lives.
“AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Respondent, whether or not by themselves, their brokers, privies, or whosoever from additional inciteful, scandalous, and spiteful statements which have triggered the Applicant and her kids emotional and psychological abuse and residing below fixed menace and concern of their lives or in every other method infringing on their elementary rights.
In a separate defamation Swimsuit No: CV/816/25, Mrs Akpabio challenged the senator’s declare that her husband made sexual advances in direction of her.
She described the allegations as false, malicious, and damaging, saying they’d introduced her household into disrepute and public disgrace.
As a part of her calls for, she requested the courtroom to order Akpoti-Uduaghan to problem a public apology in two nationwide newspapers, The Guardian and ThisDay, and pay ₦1 billion in damages.
“The allegations have triggered untold ache and emotional trauma to me and my household,” Mrs. Akpabio added.
The courtroom has but to repair a date for the listening to of each fits.
