The Chief Whip of the senate, Ali Ndume has said that former President Muhammadu Buhari was a more accessible President than Bola Tinubu who is being shielded by aides.
DAILY POST reports that Buhari was civilian president from 2015 to 2023.
Ndume made this statement in an interview on Arise TV on Friday, stressing that it was difficult to have an appointment with President Bola Tinubu because the nation’s leader had been “shielded from reality” by some of his appointees.
According to the lawmaker, during the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2007, in 24 hours, any senator or minister had access to him.
“That is politics. You talk to the people, hear from the people,” he said.
Ndume added that access to Tinubu was not this difficult outside the walls of the presidential villa.
“If you know the president before now, you would know that the whole scenario has changed,” Ndume said.
Ndume, representing Borno south at the red chamber of the National Assembly, reiterated that most ministers do not have access to the president.
The senator said some of the president’s aides may be doing him more harm than good.