When he first arrived the Senate in 2007, Senator Smart Adeyemi won a nickname among some Senate correspondents as Man of God.
He was so described on account of his revulsion at the state of things in the polity and even in the Senate.
It was said that when senators gathered privately to discuss issues of “Ways and Means” that is, matters of welfare and Senator Adeyemi was sighted coming, that the senators would quickly change the topic of discussion.
That was generally because of the allegation that he was the one who leaked to the media, issues that senators preferred to keep private.
At sessions where Adeyemi on account of his status as a senator could not be excluded, senators would end the discussion by saying that if it leaked that they know where it came from.
They would say it to his hearing ‘we will know where it leaked from if what we have discussed comes out in the newspapers.’
The perception of Senator Adeyemi inevitably led to the situation that he…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
