$200,000 Per Senator’ — Ndume Alleges Senate President Aspirants Luring Colleagues With Money

Ali Ndume, the Senator representing Borno South and Director-General of the Godswill Akpabio campaign organization, has voiced his concerns about the encroachment of money politics in the race for the presidency of the 10th Senate.

The outspoken senator said the race was being overshadowed by the influence of money rather than merit, experience, and vision for the future of the legislative body.

Speaking during an Arise TV interview on Tuesday, Ndume however absolved Akpabio of aspirants’ reliance on money in wooing other senators-elect to for vote them.

“The unfortunate thing happening these days is that most of the people that are talking about the leadership (aspirants), one of them was on your programme, (are running the race based on money.

“But in our camp, it’s not about money, it’s about convincing our colleagues that we need to have somebody from South-South as the Senate President, coupled with the fact that the president-elect has him (Akpabio) as his preferred candidate.

“So, it is not about money on our side. It is the other candidates that are talking about money. The only qualification that they are displaying is the amount of money that they tell senators-elect that they can give them.