Natasha’s Defamation Trial Suffers Adjournment

The proceedings of the suspended Kogi Central Senator Natasha Apoti-Uduaghan astatine the High Court of Justice of the Federal Capital Territory for allegedly defaming the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, again suffered an adjournment.

The senator’s proceedings could not spell connected owed to objections to the competence of the charge.

Natasha predicated her objections connected the alleged maltreatment of prosecutorial powers by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation AGF by filing charges against her astatine the Federal High Court and the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory connected the aforesaid taxable substance and aforesaid complaints.

When the substance was called, David Kaswe, a lawyer from the Ministry of Justice, informed the tribunal of his readiness to unfastened the lawsuit against the defendant.

He claimed to person his archetypal witness, a Superintendent of Police named Abdulhafeez Garba, successful tribunal to attest against the senator.

He requested support from the tribunal to telephone the witnesser into the witnesser box.

The petition was opposed by pb counsel for the defendant, Mr Ehighioge West-Idahosa, SAN, connected the crushed that his lawsuit had filed a question connected notice, challenging the competence of the charges and the court’s jurisdiction.

West-Idahosa said that the question had been served connected the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, arsenic required by law, but that the AGF had not responded.

In the play that ensued, the national authorities lawyer who announced his quality for the AGF Office argued that helium ought to person been served personally oregon informed connected the telephone astir the question filing and requested that Natasha’s assertion beryllium rejected.

However, the proceedings Judge, Justice Chizoba Orji, recovered successful the lawsuit record that the AGF bureau was served with the question but had not responded arsenic required by law.

After proceeding arguments for and against adjournment, Justice Chizoba Orji held that the due people was to displacement the proceedings to alteration AGF to respond to the question successful the involvement of a just hearing.

The Judge subsequently fixed October 27 for Natasha’s question to beryllium heard on with the effect of the AGF.