Senator representing Borno south, Ali Ndume, has said President Bola Tinubu succeeded as governor of Lagos because he worked with competent and experienced people.
Ndume disclosed this on Prime Time, a programme on Arise Television.
“The president had good people around him when he was the governor of Lagos; that was why he succeeded,” Ndume said.
“Most of the good people are not there… they have been sidelined.”
Ndume lampooned some of the president’s current aides, describing them as disconnected from the nation’s political realities.
“He just picked people that don’t know anybody,” he said.
“They only know Ikoyi and Victoria Island, and from there they fly to London or America, where their families are living.
“So they are not even full Nigerians,” Ndume said.
“These people don’t know politics.”
Ndume said Tinubu is focused on winning .
“Mr President, I think, as a politician, as somebody who has gone through it all, is strategising to win the election, but not to declare himself as the winner,” he said.
“Because you only do that when you are acceptable to the people.”
“In the north, anybody that tells you that the north is not grumbling now is not speaking the truth,” he said.
