Smart v Ikpeazu: Senator Ohabunwa knocks Kogi lawmaker, says Senate not for thugs

Ex-lawmaker who represented Abia North Senatorial district, Mao Ohabunwa has taken Senator Smart Adeyemi to cleaners over his disparaging remark against the governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu.

Reacting to Senator Smart Adeyemi’s labelling of Abia governor a “champagne drunkard”, governing Abia, Ohabunwa said, “Senate is not for thugs.”

On Tuesday, during the Senate plenary, Senator Adeyemi during his contributing on the floor of the Senate, veered off to attack the person Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, governor of Abia State,.saying, “Abia is governed by drunkards”, and that”Ikpeazu is drunk with champagne”.

But in a statement, Senator Ohuabunwa, berated Adeyemi for making such “uncouth, careless and derogatory outburst against the governor at such a hallowed chamber especially when there was no nexus between the matter being debated and Abia governmet”.

The former Speaker ECOWAS Parliament, said Adeyemi did not only disparage the office of the governor but insulted all Abians by inferring that the state is governed by drunkards.

Ohuabunwa who expressed shock over the outburst said he thought the former National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists had outgrown his former lifestyle.

”I know Adeyemi’s past but he should not allow his former lifestyle to influence him, but behave in line with his present status”, he said.

He therefore, demanded immediate retraction of the comment and a public apology both to Gov Ikpeazu and the entire people of Abia State.

Ohuabunwa regretted that if he were still at the Senate, Adeyemi would not have escaped unchallenged after the insulting remarks on the floor of the Senate.