Ali Ndume, the senator representing Borno South, has been removed as the Majority Whip of the Nigerian Senate and replaced with Tahir Manguno.
This followed his recent scathing criticism of the Nigerian government.
FIJ gathered that the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had written to the Senate, requesting that Ndume step down from his APC membership and join a different party.
Godswill Akpabior, the president of the Nigerian Senate, read the letter during the plenary session and put the request to voice votes. It received overwhelming support from APC senators.
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The lawmakers also stripped Ndume of his position as the Vice Chairman of Senate Committee on Appropriations.
On July 10, Ndume alleged that the president is not accessible to some members of his cabinet, including ministers and lawmakers and therefore cannot discuss issues affecting Nigerians.
He reiterated this allegations on June 12 in an interview on Arise Television, where he said Nigeria was running a Kakistocracy. He also added that the goverment was populated by kleptocrats who have shieled the president away from the reality in the country.
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“The government is also populated by kleptocrats, but unfortunately that is not what the president is up to; he really meant renewed hope, but you can only do that when you have people around you that are on the same type of thinking. The President should wake up, it seems he isn’t in the picture of what is happening because he has been caged off.
He has been fenced off by plutocrats. He should open his doors and meet those who will tell him the truth. Unfortunately, the people who will tell him the truth won’t struggle to meet him. I am very worried not only for the President himself but myself”, Ndume had said.
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