Atedo Peterside, the founder of the Anap Foundation, has shared his observations about Godswill Akpabio, the Senate president, at the late Herbert Wigwe’s funeral. He made this comment in response to a widely shared video in which the Senate president cracked a joke in response to a query from Rivers Governor Sim Fubara during the funeral.
The governor questioned the crowd throughout his speech, inquiring as to why political elites were fighting and even “killing” each other. Akpabio responded to Fubara’s inquiry by joking about one of his own experiences and saying, “if there’s nothing in the struggle, don’t struggle.”
As a video capturing the moment circulated on social media, Atedo Peterside reacted by sharing some other comments made by the Senate president during the funeral, including a joke he made about Wigwe’s late wife.
Taking to his official X page, he wrote;
“For the record, I was among those who found the Senate President’s comments at the Wigwe Family Funeral in PH to be in poor taste. He began by lamenting that Peter Obi received greater applause than he (Akpabio) got & later told us to join him in consoling the widow who was lying in one of the 3 caskets in front of him. Jokes? Political jibes at a solemn Combined Funeral? Me thinks that was self-centered & totally insensitive.”
