From Victor Osula, Abuja
Nigerian President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has debunked reports that he collapsed during his 61st birthday colloquium held in Abuja on Thursday, admitting that he only succumbed to exhaustion and a bout of malaria as diagnosed by doctors.
Eseme Eyiboh, Special Adviser on Media to Akpabio, had on Friday dismissed reports that his Senator Akpabio was hospitalised at the National Hospital after he collapsed in the course of a colloquium to mark his 61st birthday on Thursday.
Speaking on Friday, in Abuja, Senator Akpabio told reporters at the National Assembly that he was not hospitalised but went home after the colloquium and called his doctors who said “I had a bit of malaria, mingled with stress.”
“I have been reading on social media the propaganda about my collapse, but I’m happy the Senate Press Corps did not join in the show of propaganda. I went home and I called my doctors and I was told that I had a bit of malaria, mingled with stress.
“The stress could also be described in another way as exhaustion. In fact, anybody could be exhausted, please drink water daily so that you don’t get exhausted.
“I want to assure Nigerians that the National Assembly is intact, and we are still going on with our duty on the appropriation bill.
“We will resume on December 20 but before then, the various committees must have finished their work to enable us to meet the target to pass the budget before the end of the year for the President to append his signature.”
