{"id":70357,"date":"2024-05-08T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=70357"},"modified":"2024-05-08T08:02:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T08:02:18","slug":"president-tinubu-is-in-europe-returning-today-says-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=70357","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu is in Europe, returns today, says aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">After days of uncomfortable silence, President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to return to Nigeria (today) Wednesday after an official trip to Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Recall that <strong>Everyday.ng<\/strong> reproduced a The Guardian report on Tuesday raising concerns on the President&#8217;s whereabout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/everyday.ng\/2024\/05\/where-is-our-president-as-shettima-cancels-trip-over-aircraft-issues\/<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">He was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to attend the Special Meeting of the World Economic Forum WEF, which held from April 28 to 29, 2024; but proceeded to Europe, in what now appears to be a private visit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">For six days after the WEF meeting, the president was nowhere to be found, leading to speculations he went for a medical check-up and treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Following the inexplicable silence from the presidency on the country&#8217;s chief executive officer, rumours took on a life of their own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Thankfully, his media aide, Mr Bayo Onanuga announced on Tuesday his principal will be returning Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">In<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> a statement on his X handle, Onanuga said: \u201cPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu, along with his aides, will return to Nigeria tomorrow from Europe.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Curiously, Onanuga was silent on the country the President is coming in from, though the UK and France have been recurrently featured in speculations.<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_240508_084514_774.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After days of uncomfortable silence, President Bola Tinubu is scheduled to return to Nigeria (today) Wednesday after an official trip to Saudi Arabia. Recall that Everyday.ng reproduced a The Guardian report on Tuesday raising concerns on the President&#8217;s whereabout. https:\/\/everyday.ng\/2024\/05\/where-is-our-president-as-shettima-cancels-trip-over-aircraft-issues\/ He was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to attend the Special Meeting of the World Economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":68704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4756,2031,56],"class_list":["post-70357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-europe","tag-returns","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}