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.

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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.

Hmmm if true, he better starts taking, maybe he will start working after that

Senator Smart Adeyemi is not that smart afterall.

Abia state government must have consulted quite a number of pages in the dictionary while drafting this piece.

But truth be told, Kogi is way more backward than Abia even though the two governor's of the states are idiots.

Look, Senator Smart Adeyemi is not suffering from any compos mentis (whatever that means). He is only being politically SMART as his name says.
Given that Okun people are likely to be give chance to produce next governor of Kogi State, Smart Adeyemi needs Governor Bello's endorsement and support to emerge and win against big names as fellow James Faleke of APC and Dino Melaye of PDP.

Wishing the political class continued fight. The masses want to watch their fisticuffs this time around not just noise pollution. Headsman Bala vs Ortom, Akeredolu, Lawan vs Southern Governors; Okorocha vs Hope, Ararume, Ikpeazu vs Smart, Bello, Lai vs AbdulRahman, Obaseki, vs Oshiomole and so on and so forth...

Unfortunately, the poor countrymen will come and dominate this space with their unnecessary quarrels supporting their oppressors, who will reconcile in a jiffy.

West1side:
Even if Adeyemi is a retarrd na failure like Ikpeazu foolish n senseless Igbos like you suppose de reason with upon all the stinking stench eminating from the disaster Abia as been looted into by your cursed n forsaken politician like Ikpeazu Abaribe Theodore Orji Kalu Kanu n Co.

You need to be calming down if you want to live a long life.

Two foolish goats “fool-shaming” themselves

Ikpeazu biko,take am easy. dis is too much.
how can you be attacking the state,our potential first Nigerian youth president will emanate from,in the name of our loving Gov.Yahaya Bello...Kai! this is TOO MUCH.
Considering that both governors are completely useless to their respective States,I still wonder what Yahaya Bello will boast of now in response cos em own matter dey inexplicable.The matter go just weak am.Only one man can help him now.......LAI MOHAMMED!!!

Politicians fighting themselves, it's a welcome development. We are getting there small, small.

While they fight, he should not forget what he should do in his state

The man is simply mad

But on a very serious note, that Smart Adeyemi is childish.

You just read a social media post about a colleague. Instead of confronting him directly, you started throwing jab on the public.

What kind of cowardly act is that?

if smart adeyemi add can be smart can really be smart and tell his master govt. primary and secondary schools in the state are short staffed.HENCE the poor result kogi state churned out in the state.your oga focus on physical structure with negligence on the human structure that will make the work standout.

So this drunkard with pig head get mouth too, Mumu should save us the stress and drink the kerosene he called poverty alleviation during election.

Unsmart adeyemi is talking rubbish as if KOGI STATE where he comes from is now a Paradise. Nonsense

Ok

See what they turn am to

crazy speech there

Gbas gbos.... Gbos gbas
Nigerians hope can see your parents... Later they start blaming d youths for behaving abnormally

As much as I detest seeing two adults throwing banters in public, there is an element of truth in what Smart Adeyemi said.
Abia state is considered to be the worst state in the country, but the indigenes are blind to the suffering meted on them by their "beloved governor"

Deleting your savage paragraph and texting back "ok" is a different level of
self control.
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We too like joke for this country axwearugod. See as bomb dey fly upandan

All of them are useless

Is a lie,he do take enough alcoholic....but it doesn't give d senator d right to judge another govt performance

AfonjaMuslim:

Hmmm if true, he better starts taking, maybe he will start working after that

Mitcheeew

These people are Comedians.
Nigerians will wake up One day, but I have to leave here as soon as I can.

Boye33:
Senator Smart Adeyemi is not that smart afterall.

Abia state government must have consulted quite a number of pages in the dictionary while drafting this piece.

unfortunately they didnt consult the manual on official etiquette on how to draft an official letter. Smart Adeyemi was uncivil in his outburst but Abia state has been dragged into the gutter by the type of wording they used on official communication.


This is a result of the type of charlatans that occupy public office. Every official communication is from the office of the governor, president etc. These morons dont understand the difference between personal and official communication and the implication thereof.