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Exhaustion: My marathon birthday celebration took a toll on my health – Sen. Akpabio

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Senate President Godswill Akpabio has admitted that the marathon activities lined up to mark his 61st birthday took a toll on his health, causing exhaustion.

While addressing journalists on Friday in his office at the National Assembly, he said he was suffering from malaria and exhaustion.

“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. This could also be described in another way as exhaustion.

“In fact, anybody could be exhausted. Please, drink water daily so that you don’t get exhausted,”Persecond News quotes Akpabio as saying.

The Senate President added that the 10th Assembly is poised on meeting the “target to pass the budget before the end of the year for the President to append his signature.”

Akpabio had on Saturday, December 9 started his birthday anniversary at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, Akwa-Ibom.

On the fifth day of the celebration of his 61st birthday Colloquium in Abuja on  December 15 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Akpabio allegedly collapsed while seated on a chair.

The Senate spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu,denied the incident, he said: “Nothing of such happened. Everybody saw him today, he was hale and hearty.”The Senate President didn’t collapse. How can people make that kind of claim without video clips? Is it possible to witness such a thing and not make a video?”

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