Reports that Senate President Godswill Akpabio passed out during Thursday’s 61st birthday colloquium in Abuja have been refuted by the senator’s media team.
The former governor of Akwa Ibom reportedly passed out during the celebration and needed to be taken to the National Hospital by ambulance.
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However, the media team refuted the reports in a statement that was signed by Eseme Eyiboh, calling the allegations “fictionalised extensions of the Senate President’s assertion of being tired at the end of the programme.”
Some news stations on social media that are well-known for spreading fake news flashes have spread the rumours.
It is unsettling that rumours about the Senate President’s health surfaced just after the elite of the country’s leadership praised him at a colloquium aimed at outlining a legislative agenda for Nigeria.
“Akpabio spoke for over thirty minutes while standing up. President Bola Tinubu’s statement to some that he was exhausted progressed to a fainting spell or collapse as the programme came to a finish and he exited the site.
In their exciting work of fiction, some daring liars even asserted that he is presently in critical condition at the National Hospital in Abuja.
“This is completely false, and I adamantly state that, aside from stating to those in his immediate vicinity that he was tired, he was in no way taken to the national hospital on a stretcher or considered indisposed.”
