‘I stand by my truth’: Natasha refuses to back down in Akpabio harassment case

• Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has vowed to prosecute her intersexual harassment suit against Senate President Godswill Akpabio to its conclusion
• She rebuffed calls from Akpabio’s lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), to retreat the suit oregon supply extrajudicial clarification, insisting specified matters beryllium successful court
• The legislator besides accused Akpabio of attempting to manipulate nationalist cognition portion evading organization accountability

Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has firmly rejected calls to retreat her intersexual harassment suit against Senate President Godswill Akpabio, declaring her volition to spot the substance done successful court.

In a ceremonial reply to Akpabio’s lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), dated April 30, 2025, the Kogi Central lawmaker insisted that her petition represents a truthful relationship of events and volition beryllium addressed solely wrong the confines of the judicial process.

Akpabio's lawyer claims Natasha has nary credible grounds to enactment her claim. Image: FB/Natasha Akpoti, Godswil AKpabio
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Natasha criticises Akpabio's lawyer

Akpoti-Uduaghan criticised Agbakoba’s effort to request grounds extracurricular the tribunal process, calling it a misunderstanding of the quality of intersexual harassment and the rules governing litigation.

“The appraisal of grounds belongs to the courts alone,” she wrote, adding that specified a request risks trivialising the contented and undermining the ineligible process.

The lawmaker besides took contented with what she described arsenic a media run orchestrated by Akpabio’s camp, accusing the Senate President of trying to litigate the substance done nationalist opinion portion avoiding organization scrutiny.

She said Akpabio’s actions contradict ineligible principles by seeking nationalist validation portion the lawsuit is pending successful court.

Akpoti-Uduaghan pointed retired that immoderate further grounds volition beryllium shared lone during tribunal proceedings and successful accordance with judicial procedures.

She further maintained that gestures of civilian enactment betwixt herself and Akpabio astatine authoritative events, specified arsenic astatine the Inter-Parliamentary Union league successful Geneva, should not beryllium interpreted arsenic invalidating her claims.

Natasha claims nary correspondence from Akpabio

Responding to Agbakoba’s assertions astir contradictions betwixt her nationalist praise of Akpabio and the timeline of her allegations, the legislator explained that civility successful authoritative settings does not negate misconduct.

She besides noted that she had not received anterior correspondence from Agbakoba’s firm, adding that immoderate erstwhile soundlessness was owed to ineligible proposal and respect for the court’s authority.

Natasha is inactive serving a six-month suspension from the Nigerian senate. Photo credit: Natasha AKpoti
Source: Facebook

The legislator clarified that 2 related lawsuits are presently active: 1 filed by Akpabio’s wife, Unoma, seeking N250 cardinal successful damages for defamation and intersexual harassment, and different she initiated challenging her suspension from the Senate and withdrawal of privileges.

While her suspension lawsuit is unrelated to the harassment allegations, the different suit straight addresses the claims astatine the centre of the controversy.

Agbakoba had earlier demanded clarification of alleged inconsistencies successful Natasha’s claims, peculiarly regarding a societal media station made the time aft the alleged incident.

The legislator has since deleted the post, a determination the ineligible squad finds troubling. However, Akpoti-Uduaghan reiterated that the courts—not nationalist commentary—remain the due forum for resolution.

Senator Natasha's hubby breaks silence

Earlier, Legit.ng Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan's husband, Emmanuel Uduaghan, had reacted to his wife's sexual harassment allegations against Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

Uduaghan who is the Alema of Warri Kingdom, Delta state, said his woman carried him on regarding the allegations and that helium had approached the Senate president respectfully and urged him to widen his respect to her.

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Source: Legit.ng