{"id":131834,"date":"2023-12-16T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/16\/doctors-said-i-had-malaria-stress-akpabio-on-why-he-collapsed-at-his-birthday-celebration\/"},"modified":"2023-12-16T10:03:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T10:03:13","slug":"doctors-said-i-had-malaria-stress-akpabio-on-why-he-collapsed-at-his-birthday-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/16\/doctors-said-i-had-malaria-stress-akpabio-on-why-he-collapsed-at-his-birthday-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Doctors Said I Had Malaria, Stress&#8217; \u2013 Akpabio On Why He Collapsed At His Birthday Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_773162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-773162\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-773162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Akpabio-e1556040575816.jpg\" alt=\"Godswill Akpabio\" width=\"1200\" height=\"944\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-773162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Godswill Akpabio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio has on Friday opened up on his recent health travail, following his collapse at an event organised to mark his 61st birthday anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>While imploring Nigerians not to read too much meaning to the incident, he cited combination of malaria and exhaustion for the purported collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the issue while speaking to newsmen at the senate on he disclosed he had been diagnosed with malaria after the December 7th colloquium held in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He also downplayed the incident, noting that it was a \u201cshow of humanity\u201d as any human could be exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: Female Pilot Celebrates As She Gets To Fly Davido After Her Unanswered Request To Be His Personal Pilot In 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, anybody could be exhausted. Please, drink water daily so that you don\u2019t get exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 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, our appropriation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will resume on 20th December. But before then, the various committees must have finished their work to enable us to meet the target to pass the budget before the end of the year for the president to append his signature,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio assured Nigerians that the Senate remains operational and on schedule to pass the national budget before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-888965750\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godswill Akpabio Senate President Godswill Akpabio has on Friday opened up on his recent health travail, following his collapse at an event organised to mark his 61st birthday anniversary. 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