The lawmaker representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, has claimed that people who helped President Bola Tinubu succeed when he was the governor of Lagos have now been sidelined.
He alleged that the President is now surrounded by elites who only know Ikoyi and Victoria Island and then fly abroad to meet their families.
The lawmaker stated this while fielding questions during an interview on Arise Television.
He said, “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 that terminology ’emilokan’ came out.
“And now, instead of him bringing in his team that will look at him in the face and tell him the truth, he decided to surround himself by people that don’t know politics.”
