“Senator Smart Adeyemi Is A Mad Man” – Governor Ikpeazu |The Source

By Akinwale Kasali

For the records, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has described Senator Smart Adeyemi, representing Kogi West Senatorial District, as a mad man.

Governor Ikpeazu made this statements at the unveiling of a book written by the Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, titled: “Made in Aba”, where he was the Special Guest of Honour. He noted that there was no need to begrudge a mad man.

The Abia State Governor was responding, personally, for the first time, to Senator Adeyemi who called him a “drunkard” on the floor of the Senate last week.

The Governor quoted the evergreen words of Professor Chinua Achebe who famously admonished that “if a mad man picks the clothes of a man taking his bath and runs away, if the man runs after the mad man, nobody will know who is mad.”

Ikpeazu told the audience that he does not drink nor does he begrudge those who drink.

Adeyemi had come under the hammer by many people  because of his unguarded statement on the floor of the Senate, which had nothing to do with the subject under discussion.