Senator Ali Ndume may likely return as Senate Whipin the days ahead.
This follows a meeting with the
Dr Abdullahi Ganduje-led National Working Committee NWC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC on Tuesday.
The NWC had summoned the vocal Borno lawmaker to explain his recent utterances against President Bola Tinubu, which cost in his position as Senate Whip.
However, there are indications that he could reclaim his position as the Ganduje said the party was satisfied with Ndume’s apology at the meeting and would communicate thus to the Senate leadership review its position.
Ndume had been removed by Godswill Akpabio, the Senate President, based on a letter from the APC NWC to the Senate, expressing displeasure with his comments against Tinubu.
“We are quite satisfied with his apology. Like he said, we invited him and you know the party is the father of everybody. As a party, we are free to invite legislators, we are free to invite members of the executive, and we are even free to invite all the appointed party members in the government, so, that is why we decided to come,” Ganduje said after the meeting.
“It is a family issue, we need to resolve it and we are writing to the National Assembly conveying what has transpired between Senator Ndume and the party and you know he apologised to the party and we will convey the same issue to the National Assembly, with the hope they can review their position”.
Ndume also admitted that he should have complained to through the party leadership instead of some issues on national television.
“Yesterday, I was invited by the party and here I am to discuss family matters,” the lawmaker said.
“Actually the national chairman is not just a national chairman to me but a father. With what has happened, which you are all aware, it is not surprising that I was invited to hear my own side and we had family discussions and I actually accepted the mistake of not talking to the party as a last point and I promised the party that all my observations as a senior member of the family should have terminated or ended with the party but whatever I said or whatever I did was out of patriotism.
“Those issues maybe said strongly but they are true but then I should have talked to the party as the last bus stop.
“My membership, I have not been expelled, even the party did not say we don’t want you here, because he is my father. The party is my father; the only thing the party said is that look if you don’t want this house you can go to any house. Where will I go? This is my house.
“The President and the Senate have nothing to do with this. The President did not take offence; I didn’t insult the President. I didn’t say anything against the party but I left the party out of reaching it on issues and so, please, I think that is all I can say.”
