Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South) has admitted being ‘pressurized’ to apologise to his colleagues in the Senate for him to be recalled, but insisted that he will not do so.

Ndume, the immediate past Leader of the Senate, told newsmen after an interactive session with thousands of his constituents, at the weekend, in Abuja, that there was no moral basis to ask him to apologise because he did not commit any offence.

The leadership of the Senate was reported last week to have reached out to Ndume to apologise so as to pave the way for his recall.

“For now, there is nothing for me to apologise for. I did not offend the Standing Rules of the Senate; the move for apology was made but I did not do anything to warrant (tendering) an apology. I have no problem with apology but you have to apologise for something you did,” he said.

The senator was on March 29 slammed with six months suspension over alleged breach of Senate Rules.

“The whole thing will come and go; it will pass away. It is part of the challenge a politician goes through. My challenge in the Senate now is temporary; it should not stop me from doing what I have been doing for my constituents…I am lucky to be in the Senate. Right now I am going through industrial attachment because one day I will leave the Senate. I don’t expect to die in the Senate,” he said.

He also urged the Federal Government not to yield to pressure to evict the Borno IDPs from their Area One camp in Abuja.