Tuesday August 19, 2025
The NewsDESK |
By Idorenyin UMOREN
The All Progressive Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom Chapter, has welcomed the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Dr Godswill Akpabio from his vacation in the United Kingdom.
This was contained in a Press Statement dated August 18, 2025 and signed by the State Publicity Secretary, Barr Otoabasi E. Udo in Uyo.
According to the Statement, Barrister Udo said: “On behalf of the All Progressives Congress, APC, family Akwa Ibom State Chapter, ably led and invigorated by our dear governor, Pst. Umo Bassey Eno, PhD, the party leader in the state, I write to welcome the Senate President, Chief Dr. Godswill Obot Akpabio, GCON, back from his trip to London, United Kingdom, today Monday 18th, August 2025.
“The All Progressives Congress, APC Akwa Ibom State Chapter, deems it fit and necessary to welcome our dear own back considering the heap of rumours in the social media and elsewhere during his absence that the Senate President was critically sick and bedridden warranting his immediate rush to a London hospital. Indeed it is normal, natural and expected for any mortal body to at anytime experience a bout of one ailment or another, and as such if the Senate President experiences such it is normal and natural as his body is not cast in immortality. But it is more than a great disservice to the Senate President, his family, Nigeria and humanity to peddle rumours of ill health, death and other sundry ill wind against a soul totally dedicated to the service of his fatherland. As baseless and unsubstantiated as those rumours were, we advise that the peddlers of such rumours to take a moment and reflect on life’s vagaries as their earthly bodies are not equally cast in immortality.
“The Senate President’s arrival at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja, at about 4.00 am earlier today, hale and hearty to the warm embrace of his fellow senators, aides and supporters, we believe, has dispelled a ‘quicksanded’ rumours of his ill health, death and the rest. In the words of the Senate President when asked by journalists to comment on his present and immediate past health status against the background of rumoured health challenge during his absence, he responded “…There is nothing like such. I m fit as a fiddle”, consigning the rumours to the” imagination of the purveyors” and confirming his London stop over as a short vacation.
“The All Progressives Congress, APC, Akwa Ibom State Chapter happily welcomes the Senate President back and continues to pray for his sound health and long life as he dedicates himself to the service of his fatherland,” the Publicity Secretary concluded.
