Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume, representing Borno South, expressed his disappointment after being suspended from the 8th Senate.

In an interview with Deutsche Welle (DW) Hausa service, Ndume recounted how former Senate President Bukola Saraki betrayed him.

Reflecting on his time in the Senate and how he lost his position as Chief Whip for speaking the truth, Ndume lamented how his support for Saraki’s Senate Presidency in 2015 had backfired.

“I was removed as Senate leader and later suspended for eight months without salary. It riled me up because we played a crucial role in the emergence of Saraki (as Senate President), but he betrayed me,” Ndume said.

“I was recently sacked as Chief Whip for speaking the truth. But it is now a thing of the past. And as I watch, Allah in his mercy is avenging the betrayal.”

Ndume expressed concern about the hardships facing Nigerians and the unfulfilled promises of the government.

“It worries me that despite committing myself to the cause of improving the welfare of the masses in the hope that their condition would be better, it is lamentable that this has not yet been achieved,” he said.

“We held hopes high during the administration of Buhari and now the present government, thinking that the sacrifices of the poor would pay off. I’m worried because I’m also a son of the poor,” he remarked.

“The government of the day is now ‘personalized.’ A government under a democratic rule is supposed to be a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. But this is not so now,” he concluded.