Senator Solomon Adeola (APC, Lagos West) has refuted a story making the rounds that he said “Igbos are the problem of Nigeria.”
In a rebuttal issued in Abuja Friday, Adeola popularly known as Yayi said the originator of the story “must be a very sick and demented soul.”
Igbos, he said, are a substantial part of his constituents in Lagos West Senatorial District who “will never be slandered by way of derogatory or denigrating statement or comment” from him.
He urged the public to discountenance the story by treating it as a lie from the pit of hell.
The statement read in part, “The attention of Senator Solomon Adeola (APC, Lagos West) and chairman of Senate Committee on Finance has been drawn to a fake news item making the rounds on social media platforms to the effect that he said Igbos are the problem of Nigeria.
“On a good day the false fabrication that originated from a fake Facebook account of one suspected ‘Obidient’ “Ifeanyi Darlington Mcipm” would have been ignored as the shenanigan of ungrounded activist trying to gain undue mileage for their principal from social media manipulation.
“However, when the derogatory, unattributed and false quotation was lifted by a suspicious blog and presented as news, the senator thought it wise to debunk the entire statement and story as blatant and unmitigated falsehood that can only be conjectured by a very sick and demented soul.
“For the record, Senator Adeola has been away on his annual vacation for the last three weeks and has not made any statement anywhere during this period.
“Senator Adeola in his largest senatorial district of Lagos West of some 12 million Nigerians of all tribes, represents more Igbos than most Igbo Senators in the Senate and probably more Igbos than one or two South East state with the Igbos heavily populating areas of his district like Amuwo-Odofin, Oshodi Isolo, Ojo, Ifako-Ijaiye, Alimosho, Mushin, Ikeja, Badagry LGAs and elsewhere.”
