Ndume rejects new senate committee’s appointment, opens up on APC

Borno South Lawmaker, Ali Ndume has rejected his appointment as chairman of the Senate Committee on Tourism.

He made the announcement on Friday in his country home at Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

Recall that Senate president, Godswill Akpabio appointed Ndume as chairman on Tourism during a minor committee reshuffling on Wednesday. He was selected shortly after his removal as Chief Whip of the Senate.

While rejecting the new appointment, Ndume revealed that he lacks the experience and exposure to lead such a sensitive group.

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Speaking on his removal as Chief Whip, Ndume said he has reviewed the whole incident and discovered that his comments did not warrant the sack. He said that he never wanted to be a senate whip after serving as the leader in the eight Senate.

On the charge to resign from the All Progressives Congress (APC), the senator said he is a founding member of the party.

According to him, he was one of the twenty-two senators from the PDP that formed the APC when the current national chairman of the party Abdullahi Ganduje was a deputy governor in Kano State.

He, however, stated that when former President Muhammadu Buhari in the company of President Bola Tinubu ordered him to sign a document to join APC at the Imo House in Abuja, he informed his people before going public as such, he would consult his people before deciding on whether to leave the APC or not.