More details, on Tuesday, emerged on why the ex-Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, after his involvement in a car accident, failed to seek medical attention at the ‘world-class’ hospital he claimed to have built and commissioned before he vacated office on May 29, 2015.


“Let me use this opportunity to correct one wrong impression...

The former governor was not flown abroad for treatment. The distinguished Senator was actually on his way out of the country to visit his family that has been on holiday outside the country and he had wanted to move from there to the United States to attend a conference of his colleagues when the accident occurred.


“Recall that the accident occurred in the morning on Monday (August 31), and by 5:30pm he was discharged that same day. There was no serious injury that would have warranted foreign treatment or foreign medical attention.


“It was therefore not correct for people to insinuate that Senator Akpabio was flown abroad. He flew abroad on his own, he wasn’t flown by anybody. He was strong enough on Tuesday to make the trip which he cancelled ?on Monday because of the accident.


“After the accident, just like every other person who is in a car that had an impact, he had to go to the hospital where they did all manner of checks and confirmed that he had no internal injury, no broken bones and no dislocation. So the doctor certified him fit to make the trip on Tuesday morning.


“That impression that he went to ?a hospital abroad for treatment has to be corrected. As for the issue of the hospital he built, I can tell you because I am part of the team that incorporated that hospital.


“?The hospital is functional. I can tell you that it is a hospital that was commissioned and is still going to be commissioned in phases.


“The first and second phases are functional and is working right now, though not all the components of that hospital.


"I am not going to lie to you, the 100 per cent capacity has not been activated."


The current Attorney General of the Akwa Ibom State, Uwemedimo Nwoko, tried to defend Akpabio.

But this picture from his hospital bed is saying something different. Naija politicians and their lies sha!
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