Federal lawmaker from Borno State, Senator Ali Ndume, has said that President Bola Tinubu would have been on the streets protesting had a different government been in power.
Ndume stated this in defense of his criticism of the current administration, saying that Tinubu himself had not just criticised but protested on the streets against governments.
The Senator, who represents Borno South senatorial district, said he will continue to speak truth to power even if he had to stand alone, adding that he has been receiving invitations to come over to Tinubu’s camp.
Ndume said he is not a dependent of Tinubu and that being a Senator puts him in a position where he should be lobbied by the President and not the other way round.
“I’m a son of nobody who became somebody without knowing anybody. Ask Mr president,” Ndume, a four-time Senator, said in an interview on Arise News.
“I’m not one of his dependents. I’m his ally. Let me tell you one thing that I liked and I copied from Mr. President, if we were to swap position, and I’m the President, doing the same thing that he’s doing now, he would have been on the street. He has done it before, to protest, even if the government belongs to him, if the wrong thing is happening.
“Even today, somebody from the government is saying, look, why don’t you come over? I said I will not come over. I’m a Senator. Under a normal democratic setting, the President is supposed to lobby me on issues because he doesn’t have a vote for me. I have voted for him, whether in the Senate, whether in the general election or anything.
“And you know, I strongly believe that this power or this position, I believe, Ndume believes that it is God that will give me or will take away from me, not anybody.
“But it’s a responsibility on me, and as my religion says, to speak the truth, even if I’m alone and that’s almost what is happening now in APC.
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