{"id":79720,"date":"2025-12-06T16:22:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79720"},"modified":"2025-12-06T16:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T16:22:05","slug":"akpabio-dismisses-%e2%82%a640bn-defamation-suit-filed-by-akpoti-uduaghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/06\/akpabio-dismisses-%e2%82%a640bn-defamation-suit-filed-by-akpoti-uduaghan\/","title":{"rendered":"Akpabio Dismisses \u20a640bn Defamation Suit Filed by Akpoti-Uduaghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio has rejected a \u20a640 billion defamation suit instituted against him by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, describing the case as baseless and driven by \u201cpersistent social media allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Akpabio said the lawsuit lacked merit, arguing that the claims stemmed from Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s repeated online accusations, which he termed \u201cspeculative and unfounded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akpoti-Uduaghan had sought damages over alleged defamatory statements and previous disputes involving misconduct claims, harassment allegations, and multiple counter-suits between both lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio maintained that he would challenge the suit in court and insisted that it should be dismissed for being \u201cinstigated by unverified social media claims.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Senate President Godswill Akpabio has rejected a \u20a640 billion defamation suit instituted against him by Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, describing the case as baseless and driven by \u201cpersistent social media allegations.\u201d In a statement, Akpabio said the lawsuit lacked merit, arguing that the claims stemmed from Akpoti-Uduaghan\u2019s repeated online accusations, which he termed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79722,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79720\/revisions\/79722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}