The Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Ali Ndume recently admonished President Bola Tinubu for being held in bondage by ‘forces’ in the Presidential Villa.
Ndume claims the president is being shielded from the dire economic realities facing Nigerians—is being fed lies by persons in his inner circle preventing him from hearing the truth from well-meaning citizens. He said this while speaking with journalists at the National Assembly complex in Abuja.
In reaction to the resolution of the Senate, which advised the federal government to address the hunger in the land or face the hire of the people.
Ndume said that nothing of significance is being done lately to deescalate the security challenges which remain a permanent threat to food security saying, “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 for his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, who writes press statements.
Nigerians are getting very, 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. The food crisis is the worst crisis that any nation can encounter. If we add that to security crisis, it will be severe.”
It seems the President 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.” He expressed disappointment that stakeholders had not been forthright in addressing the menace of herders in the country. The senate chief whip stated that the menace of herders had also compounded the issues around food scarcity.
