BEVERLY HILLS, June 12, (THEWILL) – Suspended former Leader of the Senate, Mohammed Ali Ndume, has declared that he wouldn’t apologise to the senate in order to get reinstated.
Speaking with reporters after an interactive session with his constituents in Abuja, on Monday, Ndume insisted that there was no basis for him to apologise saying he did nothing to warrant the suspension in the first place.
THEWILL recalls that Ndume was on March 39 sent on a six months’ suspension for alleged breach of Senate rules over allegations over the purchase of exotic cars for the Senate President, with forged papers, and the certificate scandal against Senator Dino Melaye which he brought to the notice of the notice of the senate.
The Senate specifically blamed him for not “conducting due diligence” before bringing the matter to the floor and ruled that he brought disrepute to the senate.
The Borno South senator, however, said though he is not averse to apologising where there is need to do so, there was nothing for him to apologise for.
“The move for an apology was made but I did not do anything to warrant tendering an apology. I have no problem with an apology but you have to apologise for something you did,” he said.
“The issues I raised were put to rest after I raised them. The issue of importation of car was put to rest. The certificate issue was also put to rest. It was because I raised the issues. Perhaps if I did not raise them, the issues may have lingered.
“I did not do anything so there is no basis for me to tender any apology.
“The whole thing will come and go; it will pass away; it is part of the challenges a politician go through. My challenge in the Senate now is temporary; it should not stop me from doing what I have been doing for my constituents. It is very temporary.
“I take my suspension in good faith. It will pass away. I am lucky to be in the Senate. Right now I am going through industrial attachment because one day I will leave the Senate. I don’t expect to die there.”
