Eseme Eyiboh, special adviser to Senate President Godswill
Akpabio on media and publicity, says his principal did not collapse and was not
taken to a hospital.
There were reports that the senate president slumped and was
rushed to a hospital after a colloquium to mark his 61st birthday in Abuja on
Thursday.
President Bola Tinubu and Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the
house of representatives, were among the dignitaries present at the event.
In a statement on Friday, Eyiboh said it was disconcerting
that some people celebrated the “fiction”.
“It was especially 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 across all sectors at the Colloquium
that was focused on defining a legislative agenda for national development,”
Eyiboh said.
“Senator Akpabio spoke on his feet for more than 30 minutes
as he exposed his trajectory in a way as never before.
“As the programme ended and President Bola Tinubu left the
Transcorp Hotel venue, Senator Akpabio’s expression to some of those around him
that he was tired escalated to a fainting spell or collapse.
“Some more
adventurous purveyors of untruth in their thrilling escapade of fiction even
claimed that he is presently hospitalized and in a critical condition in the
National Hospital, Abuja.
“This is wholly untrue and I declare firmly that besides
saying he was exhausted in the hearing of those around him, he was certainly
not rushed in a stretcher to the national hospital or indisposed.”
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