“President Tinubu Surrounds Himself With People Who Don’t Know Politics” –  Ndume

By Ayodele Oni

The President surrounds himself only with those who know Ikoyi and Victoria Island and fly abroad

President Bola Tinubu has been accused of surrounding himself with political neophytes bereft of fresh ideas on how to move Nigeria forward.

Borno South Senator, Ali Ndume, said that President Tinubu  surrounds himself with people “who only know Ikoyi and Victoria Island and then fly abroad to meet their families,” stressing that they don’t know anything about politics.

Ndume spoke when he appeared as a guest in an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’, which is monitored by Urban Express News.

According to him, Tinubu succeeded as governor of Lagos state because he had good people around him, adding that most of those people have been sidelined.

“The President had good people around him when he was the governor of Lagos. That was why he succeeded. But a lot of those same people, most of them are not there again. They have been sidelined.

“Now he just picks people who only know Ikoyi and Victoria Island and fly to London or America, where their families are living. People are not even fully Nigerians like you. These people don’t know politics.

“The president has a lot of people that he knows politically. The first candidate he supported was from the North, it didn’t work.

“The second candidate he supported was from the north, it didn’t work. The third one was the one that worked. So now he said, it’s my turn. That is why the terminology ’emilokan’ came out.

“And now, instead of him bringing in the team that will look him in the face and tell him the truth, he decided to surround himself by people who don’t know politics.”