Akpabio recuperating at National Hospital

SENATE Minority leader and former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio who was Monday involved in a car accident on his way to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is recuperating at National Hospital.

Speaking with Journalists, on Tuesday, Chief Information Officer of National Hospital, Rabiah Labaran said, “he was brought in this morning after he had a car crash as I learnt. He was brought in from the Bolingo Hotel junction where a vehicle crashed into his own vehicle from behind but lucky enough when they brought him after the preliminary check –up, it was found out that he did not have any serious injury.

“He was talking when he was brought in and they gave him necessary attention at the trauma unit. I learnt that as at this afternoon, he was taken to the private wing of the hospital for proper care, though it has not been disclosed what kind of injury he has. It is something he can come over in a few days. He is currently recuperating.”

Also one of the senator’s aide sighted at the National Hospital, said that Akpabio was traveling outside the country to visit his wife and children when the unfortunate incident happened.

Vanguard gathered that the accident which took place on the early hours of yesterday at Bolingo Hotel in the Central Business District of the Federal Capital City, FCC, the nation’s capital, Abuja on his way to catch up with an international flight.

Soon after the accident, Senator Akpabio was immediately rushed to the National Hospital for an intensive care.

At the scene of the accident, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC officer who craved anonymity, disclosed it took place at around 7:25am near the Bolingo Hotel, just as he said that the occupants of the vehicles in the convoy of the ambassador and Akpabio’s driver did not sustain any injury, but that the senator suffered some injuries in the chest region.

The Junction where the accident occurred are roads from Area 10, near the Ship which houses the Ministry of Defence, the road from the Federal Secretariat and the road to the airport.

Vanguard also gathered that his car ran into a convoy of a foreign envoy whose identity had not been identified as at the time of filing this report.

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom was one of the early callers at the National Trauma Center of the National Hospital.

The Deputy Minority Whip, Senator Biodun Olujimi, who was also one of the early callers at the hospital, explained that medical personnel at the hospital were taking care of the Senate Minority Whip.