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Ndume: How Saraki betrayed me despite my support

Senator Ali Ndume has narrated how the President of the 8th Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, betrayed him despite the support he offered him to actualise his ambition.

The representative of Borno South Senatorial District offered the explanation when he spoke with Deutsche Welle Hausa Service.

Ndume said he was suspended from the 8th Senate without salary and removed as Chief Whip in the 10th Senate for “speaking the truth”.

He said: “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.

“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 (former President Muhammadu) 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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