The Presidency, through Daniel Bwala, the Special Adviser on Policy Communication to President Bola Tinubu, has warned the All-Progressives Congress (APC) should be wary of Borno South Senator Ali Ndume.
Bwala alleged that the lawmaker’s spirit and soul are already with the opposition.
The warning is coming against the backdrop of recent development between the outspoken Senator and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
On Friday, Ndume, unarguably the longest-serving lawmaker in the National Assembly since 1999, faulted Tinubu’s declaration of emergency in rule in Rivers and asked the president to rather declare emergency rule on security and economy.
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The senator also said Tinubu should be worried if former President Muhammadu Buhari is not on his side. This was just hours after former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar led some opposition leaders to visit Buhari in Kaduna.
Reacting, Bwala, while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, programme said “Let me tell you today — and I want everybody to hear this, especially the chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje: Senator Ali Ndume’s spirit and soul are with the coalition; it’s only his body that’s still in the APC. He is already on his way out”.
“He did the same thing during his time with Senator, Governor Ali Modu Sheriff, when he felt he wasn’t being supported.
“That’s how he moved to the PDP. But before he made that move, he kept meeting with them. All the while, he was there as a snitch.
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“He was giving intelligence and information to the other side. Now, the reason I say the national chairman has to be very careful and observant is because he’s dog-whistling for these people. It would be better to handle it the way El-Rufai did.
“El-Rufai just said, ‘I’m leaving.’ You give more honour and credit to el-Rufai because he didn’t stay behind to be a snitch. He left.
“But this one — he claims loyalty. Yet, from a strategic point of view, he thinks, “If I stay and keep shooting from within, people will say, Ah, this one is even a member of the party.”
