Senator Ali Ndume (APC/Borno South) has recounted how former Senate President Bukola Saraki allegedly betrayed him despite rallying support for his emergence as the eighth Senate president.
Ndume said he was suspended from the eighth Senate without salary and removed as chief whip in the 10th Senate for “speaking the truth”.
Ndume stated this in an interview with Deutsche Welle (DW) Hausa service, according to a report on Sunday by Daily Trust.
He said, “I was removed as Senate leader and later suspended for eight months without salary. It riled me up because we played a crucial role in the emergence of Saraki (as Senate President) but he betrayed me.
“I was recently sacked as chief whip for speaking the truth. But it is now a thing of the past. And as I watch, Allah in his mercy is avenging the betrayal.”
Ndume made similar comments in 2017.
He criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration, saying it has lost touch with the people.
“It worries me that despite committing myself to the cause of improving the welfare of the masses in the hope that their condition would be better, it is lamentable that this has not yet been achieved.
“We held high hopes during the administration of Buhari and now the present government, thinking that the sacrifices of the poor would pay off. I’m worried because I’m also a son of the poor.
“The government of the day is now ‘personalised’. A government under a democratic rule is supposed to be a government of the people, for the people and by the people. But this is not so now,” he said.
