The ousted Chief Whip of the senate Ali Ndume has indicated that having reviewed the conversation that prompted his ouster and the believe that his action did not warrant his removal as the Chief Whip of the Senate, he has no regrets on his position.
Ndume was removed as the senate chief whip after he criticised President Bola Tinubu government’s handling of the nation amidst the stack reality of the hunger and starvation ravaging the country.
After about two days of his sack, the lawmaker indicate that he has rejected the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Tourism, insisting that he lacks the experience and exposure to lead such a sensitive group.
The Borno South lawmaker spoke in his country home of Maiduguri on Friday saying that he never wanted to be a senate whip after serving as the leader in the eight Senate in the first instance.
Having successfully led the campaigns that brought about the emergence of Godwill Akpabio as president of the Senate, the lawmaker said he was given the chance to choose which committee to serve as the vice chairman.
On the charge to resign from the All Progressives Congress (APC), the senator said he is a founding member of the party.
According to him, he was one of the twenty-two senators from the PDP that formed the APC when the current national chairman of the party Abdullahi Ganduje was a deputy governor in Kano State.
He, however, stated that when former President Muhammadu Buhari in the company of President Bola Tinubu ordered him to sign a document to join APC at the Imo House in Abuja, he informed his people before going public as such, he would consult his people before deciding on whether to leave the APC or not.
Senator Ndume said he could not speak up immediately after his sack because he was mourning the death of a family member