Akpabio’s Wife Files Multiple Suits Against Natasha

The wife of the Senate President, Unoma Godswill Akpabio, has filed multiple lawsuits against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan over allegations of sexual harassment against her husband.

The wife of the Senate President, Unoma Godswill Akpabio, has filed multiple lawsuits against Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

This comes after Akpoti-Uduaghan accused Senate President Godswill Akpabio of sexual harassment.

Unoma Akpabio has taken legal action at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, seeking ₦250 billion in damages. She claims that the allegations made against her husband are false and defamatory.

Earlier, Akpoti-Uduaghan alleged that the Senate President was punishing her in the Senate because she refused his sexual advances. She further claimed that these advances were made repeatedly, even in the presence of her husband.

Reacting to these allegations, Unoma Akpabio dismissed them as untrue and motivated by personal interest. Speaking at a press conference, she vowed to take legal steps against Akpoti-Uduaghan for defamation and violation of fundamental rights.

One of the lawsuits, Suit No: CV/814/25, was filed under Section 34(1)(a) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and other human rights laws. In the suit, she seeks “A DECLARATION that the allegations made by the Respondent on the floor of the Senate on the 20th of February 2025 and subsequent scandalous and salacious allegations on Arise News TV by the Respondent, constitute a flagrant violation of the fundamental rights of the Applicant guaranteed under Section 34(1) (A) of The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended), Article 4 & 5 of The African Charter on Human And Peoples Rights (Ratification And Enforcement Act) Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, and Section 14 of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015.”

She is also asking for “AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Respondent from making further inciteful, scandalous, and spiteful statements that have caused the Applicant and her children emotional and psychological abuse and living under constant threat and fear of their lives.”

Additionally, she seeks “AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Respondent, whether by themselves, their agents, privies, or whosoever from further inciteful, scandalous, and spiteful statements that have caused the Applicant and her children emotional and psychological abuse and living under constant threat and fear of their lives or in any other manner infringing on their fundamental rights.”

She is demanding “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.”

In a separate defamation lawsuit, Suit No: CV/816/25, Unoma Akpabio is seeking a declaration that Akpoti-Uduaghan’s statements have damaged her family’s reputation. She claims that Akpoti-Uduaghan’s accusations on national television were false and defamatory, stating:

“A DECLARATION that the Defendant’s act of claiming on national television, that the Claimant’s husband, who is the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made sexual advances at her, without any proof of same, has damaged the reputation of the Claimant and indeed her entire family, bringing them into disrepute and opprobrium.”

She is also requesting that the court orders Akpoti-Uduaghan to “issue a formal written retraction of the defamatory words and tender an unconditional apology to the Claimant and her family, to be published in 2 (two) nationally-read newspapers to wit: The Guardian and This Day Newspapers.”

Furthermore, she demands “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.”

Finally, Unoma Akpabio is seeking “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.”

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