Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno south, says he stands by his comments made in a recent interview granted to Arise Television.
During the interview, the former chief whip of the senate
alleged that the administration of President Bola Tinubu is populated by
kleptocrats.
Following his comments, Ndume was removed as chief whip of
the senate by the All Progressives Congress (APC). The party also asked the
lawmaker to resign as its member.
Speaking during an interview in Abuja on Friday, Ndume said
he said nothing wrong, noting that his removal as the chief whip of the senate
was an “act of God”.
Thereafter, Senate President Godswill Akpabio removed the
lawmaker as the vice-chairman of the appropriation panel and appointed him to
head the senate committee on tourism.
Speaking on the incident for the first time, Ndume said he
reviewed his interview and also got feedback from friends and elders but was
told that he did not say anything that is not true.
“I have reviewed the interview I granted. I also shared with
friends, leaders, elders in this country to review and get back to me to tell
me if I have said anything that is not true or that is wrong in that
interview,” he said.
“Unanimously, the
people I shared with and my conviction too, tell me that I didn’t do anything
wrong, I did not say anything wrong and therefore, I want to state that I stand
with all my statements in the interview I granted.
“The party that recommended me to be removed as being the
chief whip of the senate, I take that as an act of God.
“It is God that gave me that position, and it is God that
took that through APC, so I bear no grudges.”
Ndume rejected his new appointment in the upper legislative
chamber.
“I learnt that I have
been appointed chairman of tourism. I want to state here that I beg to decline
for two reasons,” he said.
“You must do something that you are interested in, I’m not a
tourist, I don’t have a visa to any country as I am speaking to you.
“I have never been to China, India, or France except America
where I schooled, and London I used to go, but even at that, I can’t remember
going to any of these countries.
“I’m not experienced in that. I would prefer to be an
ordinary member; besides I have committees that I’m already content with.”
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Your removal as chief whip never an act of God. This is an activity your fellow senators carried out in the senate and you calling what an act of God?
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