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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Senate President Godswill Akpabio has opened up about his health after he was reported to have collapsed after his birthday colloquium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Reports on Thursday claimed that the former Akwa Ibom governor collapsed during the event and had to be rushed to the National Hospital.<\/p>\n

But addressing his followers and journalists in Abuja on Friday, Akpabio said he suffered from malaria and exhaustion.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cAfter the event, it was a show of humanity, so I went home and called my doctors, and I was told I have malaria mingled with stress, and the stress could be described in another way \u2013 exhaustion.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo anybody could be exhausted. I don\u2019t see any problem. Just to assure Nigerians that the National Assembly is intact. We are still going on with our duty of appropriation. We\u2019ll resume plenary on the 20th.\u201d<\/p>\n

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