The Senate at plenary on Wednesday, sacked the Senate Chief Whip, Sen. Ali Ndume.

The sack followed a letter from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the President of the Senate Godswill Akpabio.

It was signed by the National Chairman of the party, Abdullahi Ganduje and the National Secretary, Sen. Ajibola Basiru.

Ndume was immediately replaced by Sen. Tahir Monguno(Borno North) as the Chief Whip after a voice vote by senators.

Meanwhile, the letter from APC, which was read by Akpabio, was titled “Complaints Against the Unbecoming Utterances of Sen. Ali Ndume”.

“I am writing on behalf of the National Working Committee (NWC) of our great party.

“This is to express our displeasure, our outrage and our deep disappointment at the unbecoming, unfounded and baseless criticism of the government and the party, the APC by your Majority Whip of the Senate, Sen. Ali Ndume as a member of the ruling party.

“We expected a much more responsible and decorous behaviour from him. But this has not been the case.

“His uncouth and rabid outbursts against the governments, before the international community and before the global community is not only harmful to the government’s image alone.

“It also undermines the party’s unity and cohesion and in addition, undermines the government’s effort to bring in foreign direct investments to Nigeria.

“As he is a ranking member of our party, his actions are unbecoming of a senior member of the Senate and sets a very poor example for others in future to follow,”it stated.

The letter further called for Ndume’s sack.

“Instead of hiding behind the veil of gross activism to decimate the hard earned cohesion and goodwill that our party, the APC is enjoying within and outside the country.

“His utterances which are sheer propaganda are not based on verifiable facts, are unbecoming of member of the APC caucus of the Senate of the National Assembly.

“It therefore behoves on the APC caucus to bring this to the attention of its members.

“This is for necessary actions to curtail his deliberate mission to undermine the government and the party and the progress of Nigerians particularly those appointed by Mr President to work against his administration.

“We therefore urge the senate caucus to take appropriate steps to address this issue and ensure that members of the senate, particularly those within the APC hold and maintain decorum in their public utterances.

“Accordingly, we realise that the position of the whip of the senate belongs to our party and we are not opposed to whatever petition the members of the APC caucus in the senate may have.

“But we are of the opinion that Distinguished Sen. Monguno should immediately replace Distinguished Sen. Ndume who is bent on bringing down the country as the Majority Whip of the Senate,”it stated.

Sen. Ndume is an APC lawmaker, representing Borno South.

He was Senate Majority Leader between 2015 and 2017. He lost his leadership position later in 2017.