After apology, APC to reinstate Ndume as Chief Whip

All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed readiness to prevail on the Senator -led Senate to review the decision unseating Ali Ndume as Chief Whip of the upper legislative chamber.

Its National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, dropped the hint after meeting behind closed doors with Ndume yesterday at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja.

Ganduje disclosed that Ndume had tendered apology over his outburst against the President Tinubu-led administration, adding that the party would convey its latest position to the Red Chamber when it reconvenes from its yearly recess next month.

He said: “We are quite satisfied with his apology. 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. So, 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. He apologised to the party, and we conveyed the same issue to the National Assembly. We do hope that they can review their position.”

Ndume, who admitted tendering an apology to the ruling party, reiterated that his outburst was in the best interest of the country.

“With what has happened, which you are all aware of; it is not surprising that I was invited to air my own side of the matter. We had family discussions and I actually accepted the mistake of not talking to the party as a last resort, 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 and those issues may be said in strong terms, but they are true. Then, I should have talked to the party as the last bus stoAli Ndumep,” he explained.