Nigeria, May 30 -- The suspended Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to permit her legal team to serve court processes on the Ebonyi North Senator, Onyekachi Nwebonyi, through substituted means.

Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan's request was filed in an ex parte motion of ongoing challenges in effecting direct service on Mr Nwebonyi in a N5 billion defamation lawsuit.

In the ex parte motion dated 10 April and marked CV/1359/25, Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan, through her counsel Michael Numa, SAN, asked the court to grant an order for substituted service by publishing the writ of summons in a national newspaper or serving it through the Clerk to the National Assembly or the Clerk of the .

The application was ...