The rapid previous Chief Whip of the Senate, Ali Ndume, on Monday insisted that he didn’t lie when he got here on air to announce that President Bola Tinubu was inaccessible to lawmakers and chieftains of the All Progressives Congress.
Ndume was sacked because the chief whip final Wednesday and was instantly changed by the Senator representing Borno North, Tahir Monguno.
His substitute by the Senate adopted a directive issued to that impact in a letter written by the National Chairman of the social gathering, Umar Ganduje and National Secretary, Senator Bashir Ajibola.
The request was put to voice votes by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and loudly affirmed by all of the APC senators.
But the Senator disclosed when he was featured as a visitor on Monday’s version of Channels Television’s Politics Today that he made acutely aware efforts and wrote severally to have an viewers with the President in useless.
He mentioned, “I can inform you that one of many main points I had that led to my removing because the Chief Whip (of the Senate) was my criticism that the President is just not very accessible. If he’s accessible, we’d have instructed him this in a closed door, not on TV. But I can inform you that I made an effort for myself. I made a number of efforts. I wrote a number of instances in order that we are able to focus on a few of these issues. I didn’t have the possibility.
“But I’ve no grudge now that we don’t have any communication. But positively, we’re transferring ahead when it comes to safety in a single space. In different areas like Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina and Kaduna, I can’t converse a lot about it. But we all know that the safety challenges are nonetheless there, even just lately. What I’m saying is that safety issues are a collective matter. Everybody ought to come out and speak about it.
“Everybody ought to do and say one thing in order that we are able to deliver it to an finish. The earlier we carry on deceiving ourselves that it’s throughout, we won’t get management.
“But so far, I can’t say the government is not doing anything. They are investing in it. Like in my place, as I said, I can talk about Gwoza where I slept. I did not sleep with the soldiers in my house or roaming around. That means there is improvement in Gwoza.”
