I accept my removal as Senate Chief Whip in good faith — Ndume

The ousted Chief Whip of the Senate, Mohammed Ali Ndume has said, he has accepted his recent removal by the National Working Committee, NWC of the ruling All Progressives Congress, through a letter written the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio last Wednesday in good faith.

Senator Ndume who represents Borno South had accused Tinubu’ presidency of running a solo government despite hunger across the land, just as he had alleged in an interview with Arise TV last Thursday that Tinubu had been fenced off and caged by certain forces and expressed concerns over the lack of appreciable action by Tinubu in tackling poverty, insecurity, hunger, and other pressing issues.

The APC in the letter read by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, also asked Ndume to resign from the party and join either the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP or any of the opposition parties.

But Ndume who was in Maiduguri, and bereaved over the demise of his Sister In-law broke the silence to Journalists at his residence on Friday after the Third Day Funeral prayers.

He said: ” I had wanted to react, but because I was mourning since the day I was illegally removed as Chief Whip of the Senate, I now deem it feet to do so.

” I am a Democrat and a realist, and someone who always says the truth no matter whose Ox is gored.

“According to former US President, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, and I quote ‘Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise, he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else’.

Therefore, I do not regret what I said during my interview with Arise TV, I thank all Nigerians who took to their Social Media Platforms and groups who issued a press statement aligning with my statement regarding excruciating hunger and insecurity under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.