President Tinubu returns to Nigeria after 17-day vacation

President Bola Tinubu returned to Nigeria on Saturday since October 2 after he departed the country for the United Kingdom on a two-week vacation.

Tinubu arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja in the evening after his working leave.

“The eagle has landed,” presidential aide Dada Olusegun wrote on his X account on Saturday. “Welcome home, Mr President.”

President Tinubu was welcomed by a team of government officials, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Abdullahi Ganduje; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State; his Chief of State Femi Gbajabiamila; the National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu among others.

The two-week working leave is part of his annual leave.

Diaspora Digital Media had reported that President Bola Tinubu departed Nigeria on October 2 for the United Kingdom on a two-week vacation.

In a statement by Bayo Onanuga, the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, had noted that the vacation was part of the President’s annual leave.

Meanwhile, this newspaper had reported how the President, and his Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima’s absence from the country has created a power vacuum.

While Tinubu was in the United Kingdom, Shettima, his second in command, was in Sweden for series of meeting aimed at strengthening bilateral ties between Nigeria and the European nation.

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