The Senate President , Godswill Akpabio, who returned to Nigeria in the early hours of Monday, 18 August , 2025 after spending a short vacation in London, denied social media reports that he was critically ill and hospitalised there.
Akpabio arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at 4am and was received at the presidential wing by senators, friends, aides, and supporters.
Addresing newsmen at the airport, Akpabio dismissed the reports, describing them 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,” he said.
The senate president had earlier attended the sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in Geneva, Switzerland, from July 29 to 31, before proceeding to the UK.
He said the Nigerian delegation at the Geneva conference played an important role in advocating for deeper democratic governance and better synergy between arms of government.
Akpabio promised Nigerians “robust legislative engagements” when the senate resumes from recess.
