President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned to Nigeria following a working visit to France and the United Kingdom.
The president was received late Monday night by top members of his administration at the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
Tinubu returns to Abuja after a visit to Paris and London,” presidential aide Dada Olusegun wrote in a post on his X handle.
Among the dignitaries who welcomed him were Secretary to the Government of the Federation George Akume, Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila, National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu, and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Wike.
The president departed Nigeria for Paris, the French capital, on April 2 for a “short working visit,” according to presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga.
Onanuga said during the visit, the president will review his administration’s feats.
But his recent travel has divided opinions among Nigerians, especially in the wake of renewed killings in some parts of the country, particularly in Plateau and Benue states.
Opposition leaders, including Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Atiku Abubakar, were vocal in their criticisms of the president’s continued stay in Europe despite the crushing wave of insecurity ravaging the country.
In response, the presidency stoutly defended Tinubu’s trip, saying the Nigerian leader did not travel to seek medical care as speculated in some quarters.
“Sometimes on social media, somebody will be tweeting, you don’t even know who the person is; it can be somebody who has mental health issues somewhere,” presidential spokesman Daniel Bwala said on an edition of Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“You just see that information is coming out. “The president did not go to see a doctor; he’s on a working visit and we have been publishing his activities”.
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