Nigeria, Oct. 29 -- Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has told the Federal High Court in Abuja that the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello have no good reputation to protect, arguing that her statements accusing them of orchestrating an assassination plot against her did not amount to defamation.

Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan made the submission in a notice of preliminary objection to ongoing cyberbullying and defamation charges filed against her by the federal government.

In the objection, dated 18 September and marked CR/195/25, the senator, through her lawyer, Michael Numa, SAN, argued that both Messrs Akpabio and Bello had abused their respective offices.

She said Mr Akpabio, during h...