A Federal High Court in Lokoja has ordered substituted service of hearing notices on two petitioners, Salihu Habib and Charity Omole, involved in the recall case against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. Justice Isa Dashen granted the plaintiffs' ex parte application for substituted service after unsuccessful attempts to serve the duo directly.

The plaintiffs—Anebe Jacob-Ogirima, John Adebisi, Musa Siyaka-Adeiza, Ahmed Usman, and Maleek Yahaya—had previously obtained an interim injunction on March 20, restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting any recall petition against Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan. However, this order was vacated on March 24 following INEC's application, which argued that no individual or institution could prevent it from performing its constitutional duties. ​

Despite INEC declaring the recall petition incompetent, the plaintiffs continued their case, adding Habib and Omole—signatories to the recall petition—as defendants. The court's order for substituted service allows the legal proceedings to advance despite challenges in serving the new defendants directly.