{"id":62309,"date":"2018-05-21T22:24:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=62309"},"modified":"2018-05-21T22:24:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:24:52","slug":"ali-ndume-slams-saraki-says-he-regrets-supporting-the-senate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/ali-ndume-slams-saraki-says-he-regrets-supporting-the-senate-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Ndume Slams Saraki, Says He Regrets Supporting the Senate President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Controversial Senator Ali Ndume, representing Borno south, says he regrets<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">supporting Bukola Saraki to emerge senate president.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Speaking on Hard Copy, a Channels Television programme, the lawmaker<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">accused Saraki of targetting those who oppose him.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In March 2017, the lawmaker was suspended for \u201cembarrassing\u201d Saraki and<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ndume had demanded that the upper legislative chamber investigate the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">allegation that a vehicle imported without appropriate customs documents<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">belong to Saraki while he also moved for a probe into the allegations of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">certificate forgery levelled against Melaye.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">During the television programme, Maupe Ogun, the presenter, had asked the<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">senator If he regrets supporting the senate president and he said: \u201cYes, I<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">do.\u00a0 Look at the senate now, we have been reduced to unbearable level of<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">integrity, just because of few people, few person, that is wrong.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to be individualistic about it. We put the leadership there<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">for Saraki; if you want me to be specific about it, and then it turns out<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">to be another thing. We have senator\u2019s president now, instead of senate<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">president.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Ndume said his relationship with Saraki went sour because of his love for<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the truth.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">He maintained that he has a cordial relationship with his colleagues at<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the upper legislative chamber.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI speak the truth a lot even if I\u2019m alone, and I stand by it. We started<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">with the issue of Magu, I was with you on national TV and that is history<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">now, then we came out and the second issue was that of the car<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">importation, and the issue of Dino Melaye\u2019s certificate and then I was<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">shockingly suspended for 180 days\u00a0 and it was not the committee that<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">recommended that,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cMy colleagues did not not know about the report that was used to suspend<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">me illegally and unconstitutionally for 180 days. That\u2019s why I went<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">quietly to court and you see the response of my people then.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt is not fair for one among equal to take himself up, and use, take<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">advantage of the gavel to rule instead of to lead, instead of to preside,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">that is what the constitution says. The senate president is to preside, he<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">doesn\u2019t even have a vote, he has no voice. By the time you accept being<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">the senate president, you have lost your right to some extent as a senator<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">until the senate ties, that is when you come in to break the ties. This is<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">not the case, as senate president will say, \u2018I direct so so so and my<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">members\u2026\u2019.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI mean, it\u2019s very unfortunate, I personally did not expect this. That is<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">how we got it wrong, because once an individual thinks he owns the senate,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">and he dishes out the direction, and dishes out what he thinks, you\u2019ll<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">always get it wrong\u2026 108 heads are better than one. But for now, senate at<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">certain point is like Dino and Saraki. 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