The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, has said that he could not begrudge a mad man. That was the response he gave Senator Smart Adeyemi for calling him a drunk.
Ikpeazu spoke as a special guest of honour during the unveiling of a book written by the Minority Leader of the Senate, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, titled: “Made in Aba.”
He said the comment credited to Smart Adeyemi does not require any emotional bout since it was made by a mad man.
The governor, who quoted Professor Chinua Achebe, reminisce on the line that if a mad man picks the clothes of a man taking his bath and runs away, if the man runs after the mad man, nobody will know who is mad.
Ikpeazu told the audience that he does not drink nor does he begrudge those who drink.