Peter Okafor
Reacting to the news circulating on social media and some news channel that the Senate President Godswill Akpabio collapsed on Thursday at the colloquium to mark his 61st birthday in Abuja. The media team of the Senate president has debunked the rumors saying that he was not rushed in a stretcher to the national hospital or indisposed.
In a statement signed by Eseme Eyiboh, disclosed that Akpabio spoke on his feet for more than 30 minutes and after the programme his expression to some people around him that he was tired was escalated to a fainting spell or collapse.
Eyiboh described the claims as “fictionalised extensions of the Senate President’s assertion of being tired at the end of the programme”.
The statement reads, “The rumours have been fanned by some social media news channels with notoriety for the dissemination of phony news flashes.
“It is disconcerting that the conjectures on the wellbeing of the Senate President came after he was celebrated by the crème-de-crème of the nation’s leadership at the colloquium that was focused on defining a legislative agenda for Nigeria.
“Akpabio spoke on his feet for more than 30 minutes. As the programme ended and President Bola Tinubu left the venue, his expression to some of those around him that he was tired was escalated to a fainting spell or collapse.
“Some adventurous purveyors of lies, in their thrilling escapade of fiction, even claimed that he is currently in a critical condition at the National Hospital, Abuja.
“This is wholly untrue and I declare firmly that besides saying he was exhausted to the hearing of those around him, he was certainly not rushed in a stretcher to the national hospital or indisposed.”
