The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Southeast caucus has risen from an emergency meeting to call on the Senator representing Kogi Central, Senator Smart Adeyemi to tender an unreserved apology to the governor of Abia State over his insult on his person and by extension, the people of Abia State.
The Southeast caucus zonal publicity secretary, Augustine Elochukwu Okeke, who signed the release, made this known to IgbereTv after their meeting in Umuahia on Monday, March 01, 2021.
The excerpts of the press release is as follows;
South East PDP demands immediate apology from Senator Adeyemi to Governor Ikpeazu
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), South East Zone, in the subsisting quest to provide credible and progressive advocacy for the socio political and economic advancement of Nigerians of all walks of life in South East Zone, rose from an emergency meeting of the Zonal Working Committee (ZWC) where the ZWC deliberated on critical national issues.
Amongst other pertinent deliberations, the ZWC, reviewed the recent unprovoked and misguided verbal attack on the Governor of Abia State, His Excellency, Okezie Ikpeazu (PhD), by Senator Smart Adeyemi.
For clarity, below are the exact words of ‘Distinguished’ Senator ‘Smart’ Adeyemi:
“Mr President, in some states of Nigeria today, where you have ‘highly intelligent’ people, ‘highly educated’ people, ‘highly enterprising people’ like Abia, they are governed by drunkards. The governor of Abia is a champagne drinking man. He has done nothing for his people; roads are not constructed in Abia. Mr President. Abia people are impoverished more than ever before. Abia people are unfortunate to have him as their governor…Abia is governed by a man who is a drunkard…He is a champagne drinking man..”
South East PDP wonders why Senator Smart Adeyemi, a non-indigene, non-resident, who arguably owns no property or investment in any part or territory of Abia state could resort to such untoward and derogatory language to qualify a citizen of Nigeria, not less a governor of a state elected not once but twice by the indigenes and residents of Abia state.
For someone whose name is Smart; for someone whose status is (supposedly) preceded with the appendage ‘distinguished’, such hollow utterances from the congress man from Kogi – full of hatred, dereliction, opprobrium, contempt, bile – which has nothing smart or distinguished about it, is an unconscionable desecration of the hallowed red chambers of the National Assembly, which if left unchecked may lead to the misconstruing of the senate chambers as a breeding ground for the use of gutter language.
It would have been understandable, albeit inexcusable, if there were any iota of truth in the allegations that Senator Adeyemi leveled against the person of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu as the incumbent governor of Abia State.
South East PDP considers Senator Smart Adeyemi’s outbursts as an unbridled defamation of the character of His Excellency, Okezie Ikpeazu (PhD), a highly placed member of PDP of South East extraction, and by consequence a slight and an affront to the people of PDP in South East.
South East PDP, unequivocally frowns at and frontally condemns this unprovoked disrespect of the person of His excellency, Okezie Ikpeazu (PhD), the government and people of Abia state and the entire members of PDP in South East zone.
Consequent upon this, the Zonal Working Committee of PDP, South East Zone hereby demands that Senator Smart Adeyemi should publicly apologize to Governor Ikpeazu – within seven (7) days – for this unprovoked defamation of character.
Failure of Senator Smart Adeyemi to do this, would leave the ZWC of PDP, South East zone with no other option than taking every necessary measure to seek redress, including but not limited to instituting a libel suit against Senator Adeyemi.
