Senator Ali Ndume said most of those in the administration of President Bola Tinubu are kleptocrats and kakistocrats.
The latter means incompetent citizens while the meaning of the former is, leaders who use their positions to steal the country’s resources.
The ex-Senate Chief Whip made the remark on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Sunday.
“They are unrealistic people. I said it before and I’m not changing my position until they change or the president does something. I still believe the government is more or less dominated by kleptocrats and even kakistocrats,” Ndume alleged.
He accused the President’s handlers of deluding and misinforming him about the country’s situation: “I see people lying and telling the president what he wants to hear.
“My position is that the people who are supposed to help him are the ones deceiving him or damaging his image.”
Speaking further: “The president cannot go out to the streets like myself and know how the people feel. Even outside the villa, they would drive him in tinted glass so he doesn’t even see what is going on.
“People are not happy, and the president himself is not pretending. He acknowledges there is hardship and has asked Nigerians to be patient.”
