Ndume Removed As Senate Chief Whip

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday sacked Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume (APC-Borno South) as the Majority Whip of the Senate.

The APC appointed Senator Mohammed Tahir Monguno (APC Borno North) as the new Majority Whip of the Senate.

The party said the action has become necessary following Ndume’s recent outburst against the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration by claiming on a live programme on Arise Television that the federal government is being run by thieves.

The party’s decisions were contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President and read by Senator Godswill Akpabio during plenary.

The party also advised Ndume to resign from the APC.

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The letter was signed by the National Secretary of the APC, Senator Ajibola Basiru and the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka.

Akpabio directing the Sergeant-At-Arms to lead Monguno to occupy the seat of the Majority Whip later named Ndume as the new chairman of the Senate Committee on Tourism in a minor reshuffle in Senate Committees.

Ndume was also stripped of his Vice Chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Appropriation.