Senate, on Wednesday, sacked Senator Mohamed Ali Ndume (Borno South) as Chief Whip.
When l Senate President Godswill Akpabio, during plenary, put it to voice vote, members of the APC Senate Caucus endorsed Ndume’s removal as Senate Chief Whip.
Ndume was immediately replaced by Tahir Mungono (Borno North).
This comes amid the Senator’s recent criticisms of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Also, in a letter addressed to the Senate Caucus by the national leadership of the ruling APC, the party asked Ndume to resign his membership of the APC and join any opposition party of his choice.
The letter was jointly signed by the party’s National Chairman, and Secretary, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, and Barrister Ajibola Bashiru.
Daily Newshub had on Tuesday reported that some Senators loyal to Tinubu were plotting Ndume’s suspension.
Ndume had in an interview told journalists at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja last week that “Mr. President is not in the picture of what is happening outside the Villa. He has been fenced off and caged. So many of us won’t go through the backdoor to engage him.
“Now they have stopped him from talking and he doesn’t have public affairs managers, except his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, who writes press statements. Nigerians are getting very angry.
“The government is not doing anything about the food scarcity and it needs to do something urgently. We don’t have food reserve. There is unavailability of food. Food crisis is the worst crisis that any nation can encounter. If we add that to security crisis, it will be severe.”
Ndume’s views had generated series of reactions from the pro-Tinubu camp as Senator Sunday Karimi (Kogi West) and the ruling APC both knocked the Borno lawmaker, describing his statement as derogatory.
