Nigeria, March 23 -- Senate President Godswill Akpabio has urged the Court of Appeal in Abuja to halt the hearing of Kogi Central senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan's suit that she filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja to challenge her suspension by the Senate.

Mr Akpabio, on 20 March, submitted the request along with an application seeking the Court of Appeal's permission to challenge an interlocutory decision of the Federal High Court delivered on 10 March.

He wants the proceedings at the Federal High Court halted while the Court of Appeal sits on his appeal challenging the 10 March decision of the lower court to hear all pending applications in the suit instituted by Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan.

The senate president filed a similar applicat...