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Onyebuchi Ememanka @Buchiememanka1

Our attention has been drawn to comments made by the Senator representing Kogi West in the Senate, @SenSmartAdeyemi on the floor of the Senate yesterday, Monday, 22nd February, 2021. While the Senate was debating a motion on how to protect schools across the country.

Senator Adeyemi in his contribution stated that while his State Governor had awarded contracts for the renovation of schools, Abia is governed by drunkards. He then went ahead to say that the Governor of Abia State is a "champagne drinking Governor".

Our initial response was to totally ignore the story because it is difficult to believe that a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will reduce both himself and the institution of the Senate to such gutter level, but having confirmed that indeed, the Senator made such comments, a response has become imperative.

Our view is that the Senator is either suffering from a protracted case of mental illness or is battling with occasional fits of schizophrenia which manifests in making careless, dishonorable, unrelated and incoherent statements.

This conclusion becomes irresistible judging from the total disconnect between the matter being discussed by the Senate and the comments made by the Senator as they affect the Governor.

If Senator Adeyemi was of sound mind, he should have known that when it comes to education, Abia is miles ahead of his home State of Kogi. Indeed, not just in education but in every single area of development.

If Senator Adeyemi had his faculties intact, he should have known that under the watch of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu, Abia State has maintained first position in WAEC Examinations in the entire country for five years now.

Kogi has not come close to the first 20. Never!

Ever since @GovernorIkpeazu became Governor in Abia State, there hasn't been one single case of attack on any school anywhere in Abia State.

Senator Smart Adeyemi is clearly non compos mentis.

If not, he would have known that while his State is still awarding contracts for the renovation of schools, Abia had long completed more than 500 classroom projects scattered across schools in Abia State, and still counting.

It is obvious that Senator Adeyemi is battling with acute dementia and has lost every of his instincts as a journalist. If not, he would have known that just last week, the National Bureau of Statistics adjudged Abia State as No. 3 on the list of States that attracted foreign direct investments, with only Lagos and Abuja ahead of Abia State in the entire country.

It takes much more than drinking champagne to guide a state from zero foreign investnents to No. 3 in the country.

Kogi State featured prominently on the list of states that attracted zero investments. It is only a state that is peaceful and secure that has the capacity to attract such cross border investments.

Some weeks ago, the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) branded Kogi State unsafe for their consistent lip service to the COVID-19 pandemic. Senator Adeyemi was never heard to have either responded to that statement by the @NCDCgov or raise it on the floor of the Senate.

Yet, he has the effontery, or rather, the buffonrey, to abuse a Governor whose state has maintained one of the lowest COVID-19 fatality rates in the country through proactive measures to protect our people.

Between a Governor who has consistently denied the existence of Covid and the one who has put in place measures to protect his people, one wonders who is the drunkard.

Let us even interrogate the statements of Senator Adeyemi further.

According to him, his comments against Governor Okezie Ikpeazu were in response to some comments allegedly made by the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe against the Governor of Kogi State in a social media post.

This response, without more, confirms that Senator Adeyemi is mentally unstable.

If Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe made negative comments against the Governor of Kogi State, the proper approach was to respond to the Senator directly.

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be vicariously liable for the comments allegedly made by Senator Abaribe.

Interestingly, Senator Abaribe clearly denied ever making such comments against the Kogi State Governor.

For the avoidance of doubt, Governor Okezie Ikpeazu does not take alcoholic drinks and he is shocked at the schizophrenic outburts of Senator Adeyemi whom he has never met nor had any dealings whatsoever with officially nor privately.

Governor Ikpeazu makes it abundantly clear to the Senator that save for the parliamentary privilege which he unfortunately enjoys, Senator Adeyemi would have been put to the strictest proof of his wild and senseless comments before a Court of Law.

Governor Ikpeazu concludes by advising the Senator to quickly seek psychiatric help before his case becomes unmanageable.

Sir Onyebuchi Ememanka
Chief Press Secretary to the Governor.
23rd February, 2021.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Buchiememanka1/status/1364248593025097731

patwilly:
Tell us kind sir. We will connect the dots

I can't remember the rumour (it's a long time ago), but it was something about this.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-14-mn-3173-story.html

Ishilove:
Please don't repeat this blasphemy

Omisore

This is the magic of the Internet! It allows people to break the laws of time and space.


These pictures were initially posted with captions that explained that they showed Abba Kyari searching for the students that were abducted in Kagara, Niger State. Hours later, Biafran separatists posted the same pictures and claimed that they showed Abba Kyari searching for ESN operatives in Orlu, Imo State. (Go to Twitter and find out who first posted the pictures).


This is fantastic! The magic of the Internet has made it possible for Abba Kyari to be in Niger and Imo State at the same time! It has made him omnipresent!

Kriss216:
Umahi, Governor of Ebonyi State received Ganduje, Governor of Kano State in ABUJA.



Are they now governing from Abuja?

MISSCONGENIALITY:
I don't understand this too. Is Umahi's now in Abuja or what?

zoomzoom:
Umahi, Governor of Ebonyi State received Ganduje, Governor of Kano State in ABUJA.



Are they now governing from Abuja?




My thoughts EXACTLY!!!

Ceeogbaru2:
Na his first home... they know game # dice they are about to cast..

SoulMus:
As a Governor you must visit Abuja with your commissioner of finance every month for Sharing of Federal Allocation and other Funds

If not it all goes to North

ijayebonyi:
Received him as the president of Nigeria he is or what?

They are in Abuja for NGF and NEC meetings.


The Nigerian Governor's Forum held an emergency meeting at the Old Banquet Hall/Conference Center of the Aso Rock Villa on Wednesday. It was their first physical meeting in a long time.

The National Economic Council also held a meeting at the same venue on Thursday. All governors are members of the NEC.

Ishilove:
Honey, you give me flowers all the time, but never once in our long marriage have you ever given a man flowers. That's my point.

Yes, but that still doesn't mean that they are gay.

Ishilove:
No I am not wrong. No self respecting hetero man will give his fellow man flowers. Red flowers for that matter

You don't know whether you are wrong or right and there's no way that you can know because you are not in the mind of the other person. You are simply guessing based on your experience.

9jatriot:
Oga, if una non want Amechi for APC again make una tell am directly not all these corner corner. You and I know that Wike and Ameachi cannot be in the same party, the same way Kwakwanso and one other guy in Kano (can't remember his name now) cannot also be in the same party.

Ibrahim Shekarau.

Paul Hardcastle - Rainforest (1985).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFmcdf77wzU