Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, who represents Borno South, has shared his experience of being suspended from the 8th Senate without pay and removed from his position as Chief Whip in the 10th Senate. He attributed these actions to his insistence on “speaking the truth.”
In an interview with Deutsche Welle (DW) Hausa service, Ndume also revealed how former Senate President Bukola Saraki allegedly betrayed him, despite his efforts to garner support for Saraki’s election as the 8th Senate President.
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“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.”
He also voiced concerns that, despite his unwavering dedication to improving the welfare of the country’s poor, their condition remains grim, lamenting that democracy has lost its true meaning in the country.
“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 hopes high 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.”
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