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Adeyemi: ‘A mad man looking for rags to pick’ – Abia governor
In apparent reaction to Senator Smart Adeyemi’s outburst against him, Abia State governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has described Senator Smart Adeyemi as a mad man looking for rags to pick.
The governor said, he wouldn’t like to join issues with the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district, so that he will be mistaken for a madman too.
CAPITAL POST had last week reported that, Senator Smart Adeyemi refferred to the Governor as a champagne guzzling Governor.
But the governor who spoke during a book launch quoted Chinua Achebe’s narrative in one of his books that said, “If a madman picks your cloth while you are in the bathroom and takes off and you go after him naked nobody will know who is mad between you and him”, insisting that he would not joins issues with Adeyemi.
Senator Adeyemi who had been under intense rebuke form all over the places since last week, veered off while contributing to a motion on the Urgent Need for the Restoration and Revalidation of the Safe School initiative in Nigeria when he described Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu as a drunkard.
The Kogi lawmaker expressed sympathy for Abia people for being governed by a champagne drinking Governor.
Ikpeazu who was special guest of honor at a book presentation by Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe titled: ‘Made in Aba’ described Senator Adeyemi as someone that is not serious minded who goes about discussing other people instead of issues on development that would move the country forward.
“I want to end my speech by volunteering for the first time, for those who might think that the man coming behind the microphone as the Governor of Abia State is a drunkard.
“Permit me to say that I don’t drink at all and I don’t begrudge those who drink.
“In order places, even countries that have lesser problems, they discuss big issues of economic development, infrastructure and development, they don’t talk about what people do and what they do not.
“So for us as leaders, it is a calling, if you are called to lead, you are also called to be a mentor to the younger ones and what you say and how you carry yourself, and the things you say and the times you say them will tell about how serious you are as a person.
“That will be the size of my response and I will end by borrowing what Chinua Achebe said in his book, ‘If a madman picks your cloth while you are in the bathroom and takes off and you go after him naked nobody will know who is mad between you and him.”
On the book which he said he has not read, he expressed his belief in the resilience and the can do spirit of the Aba people as what Abaribe must have captured.
He said, “For others it is going to be how to be a good deputy Governor and how to be a good Governor to your deputy, so all of these are perhaps the aspects of the various lessons we are all about to learn.
“If Sen. Abaribe fails to tell his story like somebody said earlier by the time others tell the story, he will not be able to recognise himself anymore.
“But in this book though, I have not seen or read it, I think that the caption points to something and that is the tenacity and never dying spirit that Aba, exudes, represents and reflects and that encapsulates the personality of Distinguished Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe.
“Aba does not bother about taking a fall because Aba is sure it will rise all the time it falls. And Aba is not deterred by anything in size, whatever.
“That is the African traders and the Lebanese, and we produce everything that China can produce.
“I am particularly happy and also, I’m proud of accomplishments especially on this book because I have been trying to write a book which is about seven years. Some day I pray that I can be like him by the time my book is ready.”
Senator representing Kogi East Senatorial District, Jibrin Isah Echocho, has congratulated Muslim faithful for the successful completion of this year Ramadan fast, urging them to celebrate the Sallah in love, and unity across our communities.
Echocho in a statement madeavailable to CAPITALPOST in Lokoja o Sunday, described the Ramadan period as stressful, but deserving, because it is the only period for spiritual reflection on abstinence from immorality, sincere sacrifice and supplications to Allah.
He added that, Ramadan symbolises Allah’s way of teaching humanity on virtuous living, where people keep away from all forms of comfort to appreciate what the less privileged experience and deprivation they suffers daily.
He task Muslims to extend the lessons of Ramadan to the way we live with our neighbours.
“Let’s seek peace at all times and promote unity of purpose in our society” the Lawmaker demanded.
“May the celebration brings sustainable peace to our homes, my district, Kogi State and Nigeria, he concluded.
The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio has commended Senator Basheer Lado, for redefining the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, stating that, for the first time in a long while, the office is fully meeting its expectations.
Speaking during his visit to the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters accompanied by distinguished senators, Akpabio described the visit as a significant step in strengthening Executive-Legislative relations.
He praised the Special Adviser and his team for maintaining the confidentiality of communications between the President and Senate, and also, ensuring a seamless flow of information. He further emphasized that the office is now more result-oriented.
Additionally, he acknowledged the office’s diligent efforts in tracking all Bills passed by the Senate and assented to by the President, underscoring its critical role in legislative efficiency.
Expressing his satisfaction, Akpabio noted that he and the Senate delegation were proud of the office’s achievements and looked forward to sustaining the existing cordial and productive relationship between the Executive and the Legislature throughout the administration.
In recognition of his exemplary leadership, Senator Lado presented an Award of Excellence to Senator Akpabio.
In his remarks, Senator Lado reaffirmed his commitment to fostering a harmonious working relationship between the Executive and the Legislature. He lauded Akpabio for his unwavering dedication to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda—defending it with clarity, articulating it with passion, and advancing it through legislative action.
Ahead of the 2025 political party Congresses, Plateau State Chapter of the Labour Party (LP) stakeholders has endorsed the defection of the candidate of the party in the 2023 general elections and the leader of Justice and Rebirth, Barr Gyang Zi SAN, to the All Progressive Congress (APC) with the view to key into the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu.
They made the call in a communique issued at the end of the enlarge meeting of the stakeholders from Plateau North senatorial zone at the residence of Barr. Gyang Zi in Rayfield Jos.
The communique which was jointly signed by Dr. Ayiki Sati Director General, Justice and Rebirth and
Barr. Samuel Galadima- 2024 Chairmanship candidate of Jos East LGA among others said the call became imperative on the sideline of the leadership tussle at the National Level which violates the core principles and values for the formation of the Party as an alternative for Nigeria for the protection, sustenance of democracy and Social Justice.
They regretted that the leadership tussle has also divided the party into factions leaving party loyalists and supporters in the state of despondency and confusion not knowing where they belong.
Our correspondent reports that the gathering included LP candidates from the 2023/2024 general elections, party executives, and support groups from the six local government areas of the Northern Senatorial District.
Besides, the focus of the discussions was centered on the state of the Labour Party at both national and state levels and the need for political realignment ahead of the 2025 party congresses and conventions.
The stakeholders further frowned at the structural weaknesses in LP and resolved to advise Barr Gyang Zi, to leave the party and join the APC while expressing confidence that the APC would provide him with a platform to advance good governance in the state .
The communique also emphasized the importance of political consultations, particularly with APC leaders at both state and national levels. It called for collaboration with Plateau State APC leaders, including Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda Goshwe, Sen. Simon Bako Lalong, Sen. Diket Plang, and other party officials.
According to the communique, supporters of Barr Gyang Zi also pledged to mobilize grassroots support for the APC, stating that their leader’s defection would strengthen the party in the state.
They urged the APC leadership to formally receive Gyang Zi and his supporters into the party, marking their official transition from the Labour Party.
Stakeholders also reiterated the need for inclusive governance, ensuring that youths, women, and less privileged individuals are sidelined in the democratic process and accordingly officially denounced their membership in the Labour Party, declaring their support for the APC.
They assured that all LP structures aligned with Gyang Zi would follow suit, shifting their loyalty to the ruling party in the state and at the National level.
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