The All Progressives Congress (APC) has signaled its intent to persuade the Senator-led Senate to reconsider the decision unseating Ali Ndume as Chief Whip of the upper legislative chamber. APC National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, revealed this after a closed-door meeting with Ndume yesterday at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.

Ganduje disclosed that Ndume had apologized for his outburst against the President Tinubu-led administration, adding that the party would convey its latest position to the Senate when it reconvenes from its annual recess next month.

He said: “We are quite satisfied with his apology. We invited him, and you know, the party is the father of everybody. As a party, we are free to invite legislators, we are free to invite members of the executive, and we are even free to invite all the appointed party members in the government. So, that is why we decided to come. So, it is a family issue; we need to resolve it.

“And we are writing to the National Assembly conveying what has transpired between Senator Ndume and the party. He apologized to the party, and we conveyed the same issue to the National Assembly. We do hope that they can review their position.”

Ndume, who confirmed apologizing to the ruling party, reiterated that his outburst was in the best interest of the country.

“With what has happened, which you are all aware of; it is not surprising that I was invited to air my own side of the matter. We had family discussions and I actually accepted the mistake of not talking to the party as a last resort, and I promised the party that all my observations as a senior member of the family should have terminated or ended with the party.

“But whatever I said or whatever I did was out of patriotism and those issues may be said in strong terms, but they are true. Then, I should have talked to the party as the last bus stop,” he explained.