Chief Whip of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ali Ndume, says President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been caged by certain forces in the Presidential Villa whom he noted has fenced off selfless Nigerians from having access to him.
The Senator representing Borno South made the allegation on Wednesday while speaking with journalists at the National Assembly complex in Abuja.
On Tuesday, the Upper Chamber had asked the Federal Government to address an impending food crisis in the country and inform Nigerians following a motion of “Urgent Need to Address Food Insecurity and Market Exploitation of Consumables In Nigeria,” sponsored by Senator Ndume and Sunday Karimi representing Kogi West.
According to him, the farmers-herders crisis had compounded the food scarcity.
Ndume expressed disappointment that stakeholders had failed to be forthright in addressing the menace of herders as he noted that contributions were always driven by ethnic sentiments.
Ndume told newsmen: “Mr. President isn’t in the picture of what is happening outside the Villa. He has been fenced off and caged. So many of us won’t go through the backdoor to engage him. Now they have stopped him from talking and he doesn’t have public affairs managers, except that his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, who writes press statements.
“Nigerians are getting, very, very angry.
“The government is not doing anything about the food scarcity and it needs to do something urgently. We don’t have food reserve. There is unavailability of food. Food crisis is the worst crisis that any nation can encounter. If we add that to security crisis, it will be severe.
“The President should wake up, it seems he isn’t in the picture of what is happening because he has been caged off. He has been fenced off by plutocrats. He should open his doors and meet those who will tell him the truth. Unfortunately, the people who will tell him the truth won’t struggle to meet him.
“I am very worried not only for the President himself but myself.”
