Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the senator representing Kogi Central, is facing legal action from the Federal Government for allegedly making defamatory remarks on live television.
Akpoti-Uduaghan is the only defendant in the lawsuit that was filed on May 16, 2025 before the Federal Capital Territory High Court.
The senator was charged by the government of “making imputation knowing or having reason to believe that making imputation will harm a person’s reputation,” citing Section 391 of the penal code, CAP 89, and the 1990 federal laws. Section 392 of the same law imposes penalties for the offense.
According to the witness list, Yahaya Bello, the former governor of Kogi State, and Godswill Akpabio, the Senate president, will testify during the trial.
One of the allegations is connected to Akpoti-Uduaghan’s claim that she accused former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello of plotting to kill her and Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
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The Senator is being accused of making an imputation after knowing or having cause to believe that it will harm a person’s reputation, according to Section 391 of the Penal Code Law, Cap 89, Laws of the Federation, 1990. Section 392 of the same law imposes penalties for the offense.
The Senator was accused of fabricating Senator Akpabio’s accusations in the TV interview, saying that “It was part of the meeting, the discussions that Akpabio had with Yahaya Bello that night eliminate me.”
Let’s ask the Senate President: “If not to make me more vulnerable to attacks, why did he first withdraw my security?” Then he emphasized that Kogi should kill me, but that I should also be.
Who will receive justice for me if the dead men who tell no tales don’t want to stay alive? According to a statement from the Senator, the Senator was aware of the possibility that such imputations would harm the Senate President’s reputation.
In violation of Section 391 of the Penal Code Law, Cap. 2, Akpoti-Uduaghan was charged with making an imputation knowing or having cause to believe that such imputation would harm a person’s reputation. 1989, and are subject to Section 392 of the same Law, according to the 1990 Laws of the Federation.
That you, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, made the following imputation regarding former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Adoza Bello, on or about the third day of April 2025, during the same Politics Today program on Channels Television in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory.
“It was a part of the meeting,” Akpabio said during a meeting that night to “eliminate me.” He then stated in his meeting that I should be killed in Kogi but that I should be killed.
You “were aware or had cause to believe” that Yahaya Adoza Bello, a former governor of Kogi State, would suffer as a result of these claims, the charge continued.
Additionally, she was charged with making the following imputation about Senator Akpabio in a two-way telephone conversation with one Sandra C. Duru in Abuja:
Because the wife was seriously ill when they killed the girl, and her organs were used for the wife, Imoren Iniubong, is what she is known as.
In the complaint brought by the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation (DPPF), Mohammed Abubakar, the Federal Government claimed that “you knew or had reason to believe that such imputation would harm Senator Godswill Akpabio’s reputation.”
Source: Channels TV
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