Akpabio Returns, Dispels Rumoured Ill-Health

Nigerian Senate President, Godswill Akpabio has returned to the country after days of absence from the Senate Chamber.

The nation’s  number three citizen arrived the country early on Monday, welcome by many of his colleagues in the Senate, including Senator Ned Nwoko representing Delta state.

Akpabio’s absence from the country and Senate had fueled rumour that he had fallen ill.

The reports further claimed that he was receiving treatment in London, leaving many of his supporters and family members worried.

His media office had denied the report saying he had only embarked on a vacation.

Also while speaking on the report, a former governor of Ogun state, Senator Gbenga Daniel said the Senate President was hale and hearty, as he visited him in London.

Akpabio who arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, the nation’s capital in the early hours of Monday, dispelled the report of his ill health as the handiwork of rumour mongers,saying he’s “fit as fiddle”.

He described the report  as “the imagination of the purveyors”.

“There’s nothing like such. I’m fit as a fiddle. I only stopped over in London for a short vacation,” Akpabio said