In a video seen by Daily Trust, the
President was received on arrival by Nigeria’s Ambassador to France, Ayodele Oke.
The video posted on Sunday also showed the President greeting some officials on his arrival in Paris.
President Tinubu had departed Abuja on Sunday, August 30, for a three weeks annual leave, in Europe with London, United Kingdom, as his first destination.
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy in a statement entitled ‘President Tinubu Begins Three-Week Leave,’ said the President first stop was united kingdom.
The Presidential aide had also said the president is expected to return to Nigeria after the working vacation to join the campaign ahead of the January 2027 election.
Meanwhile, while addressing journalists at the airport, Sunday Dare, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communication, said the vacation was well deserved and it will allow the President to “refuel”.
Dare noted that after attending to state matters in the last few months and taking monumental decisions, the President deserve the vacation.
According to the Presidential spokesman the president has been tackling issues relating to security and the economy, adding that “The President is proceeding on a well deserved leave.”
He said with months of campaigns on the horizon, “at this point, it’s important that the President also refuels.”
According to him, “The President has had several months of being engaged with state matters. We’ve seen monumental changes, monumental decisions taken with our security, with our economy and so many other things as pertains the running of the affairs of this country.
“At this point, the campaign season has just started. We have four, five months of serious campaigning, of course, governance will still continue,” Dare noted.
He explained that “At this point, it’s important that the President also refuels and even though he’s going on leave, we know that he’ll be engaged with state matters on a daily basis. He will receive briefings from his ministers, from the service chiefs as the case may be, and from every other person who is handling very key decisions in our country.”
