The Senator representing Borno South in the Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, has tendered a public apology to the All Progressives Congress (APC) for his recent remarks against the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s on a live television programme, which led to his sack as chief whip.
Ndume, spoke while briefing newsmen after a two-hour closed-door meeting with the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party at its secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday.
“Yesterday I was invited by the party, and here I am to discuss family matters. Actually, the national chairman is not just a chairman to me but also a father,” he said.
“I accepted the mistake of not talking to the party as a last point, and I told the party that all my observations as a senior member of the family should have terminated or ended with the party,” Ndume added.
He, however, added that he needed not to apologize to the president and the Senate because the former didn’t feel offended and it was not a Senate issue.
“The President and the Senate have nothing to do with this. The President did not take offence. I didn’t insult the President or say anything against the party.”
While conveying Ndume’s apology to the party, the National Chairman, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, said: “We are quite satisfied with his apology. As he said, we invited him and you know the party is the father of everybody. As a party, we are free to invite legislators, we are free to invite members of the executive, and we are even free to invite all the appointed party members in the government.”
“So, it is a family issue and we need to resolve it and we are writing to the National Assembly conveying what has transpired between Senator Ndume and the party and you know he apologized to the party and we shall convey the same issue to the National Assembly. When we do that, we hope they can review their position,” Ganduje said.
