Ndume: I Stick to Buhari

Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, the immediate past leader of the Senate, has pledged political allegiance to stick with President Muhammadu Buhari, despite his removal as senate leader and in any situation of political re-alignment in the country in 2019.

Ndume spoke on Sunday in Maiduguri at his Government Reservation Area (GRA) residence, on the unveiling political re-alignments among various politicians across the country towards 2019 general elections.

The former senate leader, who represents Borno South Senatorial District, also assured that he will continue to align with the President, politically, despite his recent removal as the senate leader.

“I want to say that nobody has contacted me yet on any political re-alignment. But for Mohammed Ali Ndume, whenever there is any political re-alignment, you will find me where President Muhammadu Buhari is,” he declared.

He however noted that his “political stand” was predicated on the fact that President Buhari had been his mentor for a very long time; even before he was elected to represent his people in the Senate and leader of the Senate in 2015.

On his removal as Senate leader, Ndume said: “Buhari has been my long time mentor. “When your mentor is on one side, you are expected to be with him no matter what.”

He said that he had always stood by the truth in all his political endeavours in the state and the country at large.

His words: “I am an extrovert personality, and I have always stood on the side of the truth. Maybe that is why I sometimes ran into troubled waters. I never planned to be a Senator at the onset, it was God’s decision.”

He said he had no political ambitions or plans for 2019 general elections in Borno state; because he believed in destiny.

Ndume further disclosed: “I always want God to decide for me in any circumstance. My ambition was to be a grassroots politician where I can be the Chairman of Gwoza council and construct access roads over and down Mandara Mountains that extend down to South Africa. But God made me a member of House of Representatives.”

He said even in 2011, his target was to retain his seat at the House of Representatives, whereupon his constituents asked him to move to the Senate, adding that his emergence as the Senate Leader was also due to providence.