Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Kogi Central Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan has taken legal action against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, over alleged defamation.

The senator demanded N100 billion in general damages and N300 million in litigation costs.

The lawsuit, filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja on 25 February through her counsel, Victor Giwa, also listed Mfon Patrick, a senior legislative aide to Mr Akpabio, as a defendant.

The case resulted from a Facebook post allegedly made by Mr Patrick following a heated argument between the senate president and Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan over a change in her seat in the Senate chamber last Thursday.

In the suit, marked CV/737/25, Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan said the post was defamatory, provocative, ...