The Senator representing Borno South, Ali Ndume, has said that President Bola Tinubu may not know how bad things are in the country since he drives in cars with tinted glasses that do not allow him to see anything.

Ndume stated this on Sunday, while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme.

Ndume, one of the long serving lawmakers in the Nigerian Senate, pointed out that the people were not happy with the All Progressives Congress, APC.

He said even though the President had himself acknowledged that things were very difficult, not much was being done to help the people.

He said, “The president also is not pretending. He acknowledges there is hardship. He acknowledges that things are very difficult. Even recently he appealed that people should be patient with him.

“But the question is, for how long will we continue to be patient. Things are very difficult and so many things have not been done the way the people are expecting.

“To be honest with you, if you go back to the electorates today halfway they’re not happy. I see people lying, telling the President what he wants to hear or maybe some of them, he doesn’t even want to hear them.

“My position on the people surrounding the President is that they are deceiving him, damaging his image and doing more harm than good because the President cannot go out on the streets like myself and know how the people feel.

“Even outside the Villa they’d drive him in a tinted glass that he does not even see what’s going on.

“It is people like us that represent the public that you’ll listen to and you also get your intelligence from the people on ground. Things are bad, very bad in the country.”