Sen. Ben Bruce Laments How He Was Disgraced At The Aso Villa

Ben Murray Bruce, showbiz mogul and senator representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District, on Monday night barred by the operatives of the Department of State Services, (DSS), from exchanging pleasantries with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa.Bruce, who joined his colleagues to honour a dinner at the Aso Villa to mark the 2016 Democracy Day, took to his usual Twitter page to lament the treatment meted out to him by the operatives.According to the ‘commonsense senator’, he had attempted to greet the president as one of his colleagues just did, but to his shock, the security agent denied him access to the Nigerian leader. His tweets: “I was at the Presidential Villa today. Went to the President’s table. DSS wouldn’t allow me greet him but let another Senator greet him.”

“My critics say I shouldn’t criticize the president openly, so I go and meet him one on one and I’m blocked. Am I not a Nigerian citizen?

“If PMB’s handlers selectively block access to him, he runs the risk of being surrounded only by sycophants!

“I have nothing against the President, however, nobody is too important to be criticized and my mouth will never be silenced!” Bruce is known to be very critical of the current administration, particularly President Buhari.Few hours before arriving the villa, Bruce, in his characteristically manner, had lashed out at the presidency on his Twitter account: “It’s ‘fantastically corrupt’ that Nigeria maintains a 10 plane Presidential fleet whereas the PM of a rich nation like UK flies commercial!”

Also on Sunday, the Democracy Day, the senator had alleged that Buhari and his ministers spent the whole of last year giving excuses.