I stand by my comments – Sen. Ndume
By Muhammad Maitela, Damaturu
Sen. Mohammed Ali Ndume, the Senator representating Borno South says he stands by his comments on the state of the nation and the cabal preventing President Bola Tinubu from getting the true picture of the suffering Nigerians are going through.
Ndume said he was not moved by his removal as the Chief Whip of the Senate over the comments.
He said he had rejected that the attempt to placket him by the Senate President with the Chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Tourism.
According to him, he lacks the experience and exposure to lead such a sensitive committee.
The Borno South lawmaker who said this in his country home of Maiduguri on Friday about 48 hours after he was removed as the Senate Chief Whip, added that he never wanted to be a senate whip after serving as the leader in the eighth Senate.
The lawmaker said after the inauguration of the Senate, he was given the chance to choose which committee to serve as vice chairman having successfully led the campaigns that Godswill Akpabio as Senate president.
On whether he has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the senator said as a founding member of the party, he will only leave with the consent of his constituents.
According to him, he was one of the twenty-two senators from the PDP that formed the APC when the current national chairman of the party, Abdullahi Ganduje, was deputy governor in Kano State.
He recalled that when former President Muhammadu Buhari in the company of Tinubu wanted him to sign a document to join APC at the Imo House in Abuja, he informed them had to consult his constituents before doing so.
“I will consult with my people before deciding on whether to leave the APC or not”, Ndume said, adding that did not speak out immediately after his sack because he was mourning the death of a family member.
