The Nigerian Senate on Thursday ratified the candidates put forward by
the All progressives Congress, APC, North-West and North-East zonal
caucuses for the positions of Senate Majority Leader and Deputy Majority
Leader. While Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume from Borno State got
approved for the Majority Leader, Senator Bala Na’Allah from Kebbi
central was ratified as Deputy Majority leader, Olusola Adeyeye as
Chief Whip and Francis Makhana as deputy.
It could be recalled
that in 2012, an official of the State Security Service, Mr. Abdulfaruk
Dauda, told a Federal High Court in Abuja that former spokesman for
Boko Haram, Kudunga Abdul, named Senator Ali Ndume as a financier of the
group. Abdul was sentenced to three years in prison after he confessed
to being the spokesman for the group.
The News Agency of
Nigeria reports that Ndume was arraigned on December 12, 2011 on four
counts of having links with Boko Haram. He had refuted the allegation
on the grounds that the prosecution did not establish evidence linking
him with the terror group. Ndume, a Senator from Borno, said he only
made contact with the group while serving as a member of the
Presidential Committee set up to help quell the hostilities in the
North-East. He said the transactions with some select members of the
group were lawful and targeted at resolving the security challenges.
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