•Says it’s becoming Tinubu’s puppet
It seems like the ripples evoked by the removal of the Borno South senator, Ali Ndume, as Senate Chief Whip, are not about to go away anytime soon.
Besides Ndume himself doubling down on his condemnation of the Tinubu administration’s response to the economic situation in the country, former Vice President and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Mr. Atiku Abubakar, has taken to his X account to call out the Senate, accusing it of becoming a puppet of the Nigerian president.
Atiku, who supported the views of Senator Ndume, disagreed with the Senate’s handling of the Ndume affair, which he deemed was a patriotic call on President Bola Tinubu to wake up to his responsibilities to Nigerians.
Abubakar said that the removal of Ndume as chief whip smacked of despotic disposition, remarking, “This ugly tendency is being manifested by the steady posturing of our National Assembly, especially the Senate, of taking a reverse course in its core function and becoming a puppet in the hands of the President.”
Not done, Abubakar, who said that “the legislative arm of government was conceived as a means of protecting the people from the authoritarian tendencies of wielders of state powers”, added, “Regrettably, however, the democracy in Nigeria in the current administration of President Bola Tinubu has become an anathema to that general principle of democracy as providing primary protection for the people against executive excesses.”
Now we see PDP fighting for APC, there must be something more ‘gaming’ than we can see