Borno South senator, Ali Ndume, has said that most members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) feel abandoned by President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Ndume stated that many APC members share the same sentiments as former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai who believes that Tinubu’s administration has sidelined them.
Prior to his defection to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), El-Rufai had launched a series of verbal attacks on the APC.
The former governor, who was a founding member of the APC, had accused the ruling party of lacking internal democracy.
He claimed that the APC’s organs had ceased to function since 2023.
Shortly after making the claim, El-Rufai defected to the SDP.
However, appearing on Channels TV’s Politics Today, on Friday, Ndume said: “Two years into the government, many people feel that they have been abandoned. Like El-Rufai that gave that excuse that APC left him behind, so many others too are saying the same.
“Looking at what I know, like appointments, having access, and carrying people along, he’s just down in the school; people are not happy.
“Many people don’t have access, I said it sometimes back and they didn’t do something about it. Instead, they came back on the back of newspapers and started abusing the messenger instead of addressing the message.”
This comes as Ndume has accused Tinubu of lopsided appointments, stressing that the president ignored the federal character principle.
