Senator Ali Ndume has shrugged off his removal as Senate Chief Whip and Vice chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations.
Addressing the press today in his Maiduguri country home, about 48 hours after he was stripped of his position as Senate Chief Whip, the senator said that he was still of the view that the Tinubu administration was not in touch with the sufferings Nigerians were going through at the moment.
He said that he was only speaking the truth out of his conviction, noting that he had reviewed the interview that attracted his party’s anger on him several times and found nothing he said there that was not the truth.
He went further to disclose that he had also sent recorded clips of the interview to some persons across the country to review and tell him if there was anything wrong with what he said, and that everyone of them got back to him to say that he had spoken the truth
Said he, “I did not say anything wrong; therefore, I want to state that I stand by all my statements in the interview I granted.”
The Borno South legislator said that he never contested any election to become the chief whip or vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations, but to be a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and, therefore, he would prefer to remain as senator without any other attachment in terms of office.
Accordingly, he turned down his new appointment as chairman of the Senate Committee on Tourism. His reason was that he did not know anything about tourism; that he was not a tourist and had scanty experience about traveling.
Ndume was removed from the leadership of the Senate for his criticism of the Tinubu regime, whom he charged was being run by a cabal that had shielded the president from the economic woes most Nigerians were facing.