Akpabio allegedly faints in hotel in Abuja, quickly taken to the hospital

Senate President Godswill Akpabio reportedly passed out on Thursday at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja. Akpabio was taken to the hospital after the incident. Akpabio reportedly passed out while watching President Bola Tinubu leave.

At a colloquium held in the hotel’s Congress Hall in honour of the Senate President of Nigeria, who turned sixty-one, Tinubu and other dignitaries were there.

Before being sent to the hospital, Akpabio was momentarily stabilised, according to sources who spoke with OBASANJONEWS24.

Following his 61st birthday colloquium in Abuja today, Senate President Akpabio passed out while bidding the President farewell.

One of the insiders added, “He was stabilised for a short while before being taken to the NNPC hospital in Abuja, where he was wheeled into a special room on a stretcher.”

“He has stayed at the medical facility.”

President Tinubu declared during the ceremony that Nigeria’s problems would be jointly addressed by the legislative and executive branches of government.

Speaking at the colloquium on Thursday in Abuja, President Tinubu stated that the legislature and executive branch would work together to evaluate the nation’s problems in order to develop workable solutions for the benefit of all Nigerians.

“We will succeed because I have Senate President Akpabio and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Right Honourable Abbas, on my side,” Tinubu stated at the event, according to a statement from Chief Ajuri Ngelale, Special Advisor to the President on Media & Publicity, signed by him. 

“I have faith in Sen. Godswill Akpabio as a person. It’s true that God has a plan for his life. From 1999 until 2007, I served as the governor of Lagos State, and he was a commissioner.