Senate President Godswill Akpabio clarified on Friday that he was exhausted and diagnosed with malaria following reports that he collapsed at his 61st birthday colloquium held Thursday in Abuja.
Akpabio was reported to have slumped after the event while seeing President Bola Tinubu off at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja and was rushed to the hospital.
Addressing the journalists on Friday in his office, the Senate President explained that what happened to him was stress-induced, coupled with malaria.
Akpabio said, “What eventually happened after the event was a show of humanity.
“I went home and I called my doctors, and I was assured that I have malaria, mingled with stress, which could also be described in another way as exhaustion.
“In fact, anybody could be exhausted. Please drink water regularly so that you don’t get exhausted.”
The Senate President further expressed that he isn’t perturbed by the incident, as the National Assembly is always ready and willing to forge ahead with its duties.
He said, “This is to say that the work goes on. I want to assure Nigerians that the National Assembly is intact and we are still going on with our duty and our appropriation.
“We will resume on December 20. But before then, the various committees must have finished their work to enable us to meet the target of passing the budget before the end of the year for the president to append his signature.”
