{"id":11394,"date":"2023-12-15T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=11394"},"modified":"2023-12-15T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T10:56:01","slug":"senate-president-dismisses-collapse-rumors-cites-misinterpretation-of-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/15\/senate-president-dismisses-collapse-rumors-cites-misinterpretation-of-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate President Dismisses Collapse Rumors, Cites Misinterpretation of Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio&#8217;s media team has vehemently refuted recent reports suggesting that he collapsed during the colloquium marking his 61st birthday in Abuja. In an official statement signed by Eseme Eyiboh, the media team clarified that the claims were unfounded and mere &#8220;fictionalized extensions&#8221; of Akpabio expressing tiredness at the conclusion of the event.<\/p>\n<p>The statement underscored the role of social media channels known for disseminating false information and emphasized that the speculations about Akpabio&#8217;s well-being surfaced following the celebration by prominent leaders at the colloquium, which aimed to shape a legislative agenda for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the circulated reports, the media team clarified that Akpabio actively participated in the event, delivering a speech that lasted over 30 minutes. They clarified that his expression of tiredness was erroneously interpreted as a fainting spell or collapse, particularly after President Bola Tinubu left the venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio&#8217;s media team has vehemently refuted recent reports suggesting that he collapsed during the colloquium marking his 61st birthday in Abuja. In an official statement signed by Eseme Eyiboh, the media team clarified that the claims were unfounded and mere &#8220;fictionalized extensions&#8221; of Akpabio expressing tiredness at the conclusion of the event. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11441,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions\/11441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}