President Bola Tinubu has not been seen since he departed for an official trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last week to attend a special session of the World Economic Forum.
The forum concluded on April 29, but the president’s whereabouts remain a mystery, leaving Nigerians concerned about their leader’s whereabouts in the face of severe fuel shortages, depreciating currency and skyrocketing inflation.
According to PG report, checks showed Tinubu left Riyadh on April 30, one day after the summit ended, and arrived in London on the same day. He departed London Stansted for Paris Le Bourget on May 2, where he has remained ever since without the knowledge of most of his key aides.
“I am just learning now from you that the president might be in Paris. We were all fooled that he was visiting someone in London even as of yesterday (Sunday) evening,” a senior presidential aide told the publication under anonymity to discuss frustration among officials over the president’s conduct. “We don’t know why he is hiding his movement from us.”
The president had travelled on the Gulfstream G550 typically assigned to Vice-President Kashim Shettima, but after the main presidential jet broke down, Mr Tinubu picked up his deputy’s plane to do his own foreign trips.
The Gazette was not immediately able to ascertain whether or not Mr Tinubu was in Paris as of the time of this publication. Previous administrations had used presidential jets as a veil to hide the actual whereabouts of a president, even though a jet’s location, especially abroad, often accurately indicates the location of the Nigerian leader travelling in it.
The State House did not return the publication request seeking comments about the Nigerian president’s whereabouts.
PG report
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