Sen Natasha files N5b lawsuit against Nwaebonyi over illegal comments
Embattled Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has dragged her colleague, Senator Onyekachi Nwaebonyi, to court over comments she described as defamatory and damaging to her reputation.
In a lawsuit filed at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Akpoti-Uduaghan, through her legal team led by Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), M.J. Numa, is demanding N5 billion in damages over what she termed as “false, malicious and injurious” statements made by Nwaebonyi.
According to court documents, the defendant, who represents Ebonyi North Senatorial District and serves as Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, told FCNN on March 6, 2025, where he made a series of damaging allegations.
He reportedly described Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan as a “gold digger,” a “habitual liar,” and a “habitual blackmailer.”
He also allegedly claimed that she had “six children for different men,” and that her husband, Chief Emmanuel Uduaghan, married her “under duress.”
Reacting through her suit, Akpoti-Uduaghan stated that these allegations were baseless and calculated to destroy her character in the eyes of the public.
“These statements were broadcast nationally and rebroadcast across multiple online and social media platforms, thus ensuring wide publication,” the claimant stated in the suit.
She further submitted that, “The claimant further contends that these statements in their natural and ordinary meaning, are meant and were understood to portray the claimant: as someone who constantly extorts people for money through dishonest and unscrupulous means as a career.”
“As someone who demands money or other benefits from someone in return for not revealing compromising or damaging information about them. As a woman who forms relationships with men purely to obtain money or gifts from them.”
“As someone who constantly tells lies and does not speak the truth on most occasions and as someone who uses the threat of damaging information to coerce others into acting in her favour.”
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Akpoti-Uduaghan insisted that the defendant made the remarks “deliberately” and “knowing same to be false,” with the intent to discredit her and justify her illegal suspension from the Senate.
“The claimant is an inspiration to women in politics and aspiring women for speaking truth to power,” she stated.
