Daniel Bwala, a lawyer and public affairs analyst, has said
Bwala said this while responding to recent comments by Chief Whip of the Senate, Mohammed Ali Ndume.
In an interview with BBC Hausa on Wednesday, Ndume had said the federal government’s inability to address security challenges and other issues is a major challenge, adding that some ministers are unable to meet with President Bola Tinubu to discuss the matter.
He had said: “The major problem with this government is that its doors are closed, to the extent that even some ministers cannot see the President, not to mention members of the National Assembly, who do not have the opportunity to meet with him and discuss the issues affecting their constituencies.”
Ndume later told journalists at the National Assembly that the president had lost touch with reality as some forces had caged him at Aso Rock.
Weighing in, Bwala in a piece titled, ‘Ali Ndume, the rant of an expert in grandstanding’, said Ndume was unfit to criticise Tinubu.
He asked the lawmaker what he had achieved for his people in over two decades that he has been representing them.
“Senator Ali Ndume has continued to show lack of leadership quality by any standard. He is just a beneficiary of a system that promotes Stockholm syndrome. Otherwise, how could a man with relatively less political value continues to represent people for 21 years, yet enmeshed in endless controversies with little or nothing to show in his Senatorial District?”
“Of course, he knows his people too well. Like Maxwell clearly stated in law 20 – The Law of Explosive Growth, John Schnatter, one of America’s best makers of pizza had said, “It is my job to build the people who are going to build the company.” The question therefore is, how many people has Senator Ali Ndume built in his 21-year sway at the National Assembly? As a 2-term House of Representatives member from 2003 through 2011, and now a 4th term.
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