
Apparently, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan will be having a face-off with a total of six individuals in court.
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and the immediate past Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, alongside four others, have been listed as key witnesses in a criminal suit filed by the Federal Government against suspended Senator Natasha over alleged statements.
The suit, marked CR/297/25, was filed on May 16, 2025, at the Federal Capital Territory High Court.
Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan, representing Kogi Central, is the sole defendant in the case.
The Federal Government, through the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mohammed Abubakar, accused the senator of making criminal imputations during a live broadcast and a private phone conversation, which allegedly defamed Akpabio and Bello.
One of the central allegations involves statements Akpoti-Uduaghan made on
Channels TV’s Politics Today programme on April 3, 2025, where she alleged that both Akpabio and Bello discussed plans to assassinate her.
“It was part of the meeting, the discussions that Akpabio had with Yahaya Bello that night-to eliminate me… he then emphasised that I should be killed in Kogi,” the charge quoted her as saying.
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In another instance, dated March 27, 2025, the government claims the senator told a woman named Sandra Duru during a phone call that Akpabio was linked to the organ harvesting of the late Iniubong Umoren for his ailing wife.
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