Nigeria, May 23 -- Senate President Godswill Akpabio and former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello have been lined up to testify in a criminal defamation case against Kogi Central senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.

PREMIUM TIMES reported Thursday that the Department of Public Prosecutions of the Federation (DPPF), under the Federal Ministry of Justice, charged Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan on 16 May at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Abuja.

The prosecution alleged that Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan defamed Messrs Akpabio and Bello by accusing them, during a television programme, of plotting to assassinate her.

It alleged in the three counts preferred against the senator that she made the "imputation" on Channels Television's 'Politics...