Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has described Senator Smart Adeyemi as a mad man looking for rags to pick, hence that he will not join issues with him.

But the governor hailed Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South) as a lawmaker synonymous with service to his people.

Speaking against Adeyemi’s tag on him as a champagne guzzling governor, Ikpeazu 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 both of you.”

Senator Adeyemi (Kogi West), while contributing to a motion on the urgent need for the restoration and revalidation of the Safe School Initiative in Nigeria, had expressed sympathy for Abia people for being governed by a champagne drinking governor.