Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has declared readiness to prove her sexual harassment case against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio in the light of his N200 billion defamation suit filed against her.
Reacting, via a statement, to the N200 billion defamation suit filed against her by the Senate President, in Abuja, on Friday, the female Senator (PDP, Kogi Central) said that “the court case now provided the platform” to prove Akpabio sexually harassed her.
She insists she will prove that she was indeed sexually harassed and that her refusal to submit to the alleged advances triggered sustained political attacks against her.
The Senate President had filed a ₦200 billion defamation lawsuit against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, accusing her of publishing malicious allegations that he sexually harassed her.
Documents from the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory indicate that Akpabio is demanding extensive damages, retractions, and nationwide broadcast apologies, insisting that the senator’s claims severely injured his reputation and subjected him to public ridicule.
The suit, which included a detailed Statement of Claim and a list of witnesses, alleges that Senator Akpoti’s interviews aired on television, radio, and widely circulated online painted the Senate President as a predator who exploited his position for personal gratification.
Akpabio argues that millions of Nigerians consumed the content, creating a wave of backlash that he describes as damaging, humiliating and deeply distressing.
He is asking the court to compel the removal of all online materials containing the allegations and to order an apology broadcast across major media outlets for several consecutive days.
A court order issued on 6 November 2025 granted the claimant permission to serve court processes on Senator Akpoti through the Clerk of the National Assembly, following unsuccessful attempts at direct service.
Akpoti-Uduaghan disclosed this in a Facebook post on Friday where she attached the notice of the suit with number: FCT/HC/CV/3356/2025 before Justice U. P. Kekemeke.
According to her, the development will offer her an opportunity to now present her account before the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges which previously declined to hear her complaint.
Akpabio, in the suit before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, accused the Kogi Central senator of making[ “false, malicious, and injurious” claims that portrayed him as a “sexual predator” and exposed him to “public hatred, contempt, and ridicule.”
The court had, on November 6, granted an order for substituted service after bailiffs failed to serve Akpoti-Uduaghan directly.
The documents were subsequently routed through the Clerk of the National Assembly.
Posting on Facebook and Instagram, she wrote, “I’m in receipt of the newly instituted N200bn suit against me by Senator Godswill Akpabio claiming defamation on sexual harassment.
“Now, I am glad that Akpabio has brought this up because the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges failed to grant me an audience on this issue, relying on the fact that Godswill Akpabio’s wife had instituted a defamatory case against me. Therefore they couldn’t attend to a matter already in court.
“Alas, I now have a chance to prove how I was sexually harassed and how my refusal to give in to his demands unleashed a series of unprovoked and unprecedented attacks on my person. See you in court Godswill Akpabio.”
Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended for six months in March 2025 after protesting the relocation of her seat during plenary.
