The president-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s frequent trips abroad is giviing some Nigerians serious worries on whether the development will be the hallmark of his presidency.
The fear has becomes so much so that his critics have started advising Nigerians to prepare for a repetition of the Mohammed Buhari’s presidency which was reeled with so much absenteeism due to his frequent trip abroad for medical treatment.
On Wednesday, Tunde Rahman, the spokesman for the pesident elect diclsosd that Tinubu has travelled abroad to consult with other world and business leaders ahead his inuaguration in less than three weeks.
He is expected to be sworn in as Nigeria’s 16th president and Commander-in-Chief on May 29.
According to a statement signed by Rahman, Tinubu will use the opportunity of his trip abroad to consult widely on his impending presidency, meeting key allies and investos on how to move Nigeria forward as an economic powerhouse.
“Reviving the country’s economy forms a major plank of Tinubu’s Renewed Hope agenda and the meeting is part of his efforts to re-establish Nigeria’s importance in the global economic chain and create empowering opportunities for the country’s huge youth population,” the statement said.
Not many Nigerians are impressed that the president elect has jetted out of the country less than one month after he returned from France.
The worries among many Nigerians is that his presidency could be marred by frequent travel abroad to seek medical assistance for his health challenges, even though he has constantly blunted suggestions that he’s sick.
Those watching the nation’s polity insists that the country will suffer if Tinubu will spend a beer part of his presidency abroad looking for medical help for an undisclosed ailment.
His recent trip to Europe came barely one month after he returned to the country on April 24. He had left the country on March 21 for France amidst worries that his health is failing.
Also in 2022, the former Lagos state governor spent close to 30 days in France after he left th3 country on June 27, and retuned in July of that year.
His longest trip abroad so far was in 2021 when he was hospitalised in the United States of America, USA for over a knee injury condition. He spent more than 60 days in the country, so much so that his long absence from Nigeria created fears among his supporters after suggestions in some quarters that he has died of an undisclosed ailment.
Nigerians look forward to his return soon ahead his swearing in on May 29.
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