{"id":91967,"date":"2024-10-12T21:48:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T21:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=91967"},"modified":"2024-10-12T22:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T22:05:13","slug":"can-the-president-move-around-as-he-pleases-during-his-annual-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=91967","title":{"rendered":"Can the President move around as he pleases during his annual leave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Can the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu travel as he pleases while observing his annual vacation?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Commentators on social media do not think so. The raging controversy on social media was exacerbated after his media aide, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, reacted to blistering vituperations\u00a0 over his movement between two European countries. Omanuga said the president is still on his two weeks leave and can travel wherever he likes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Livid reactions followed the comment on social media after it emerged that Tinubu proceeded to France from the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The presidency had disclosed early in the week that the President would use his two weeks leave as a working vacation and a retreat to reflect on his administration\u2019s economic reforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">On Friday, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Political and Other Matters, Ibrahim Masari, said he met with the President at his private residence in the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">His words on his verified X: \u201cToday, I had the honor of visiting President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR at his private residence in the United Kingdom, where we engaged in productive discussions. We then departed for Paris, France, for another important engagement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Many Nigerians went gaga following the revelation. They accused him of taking the country for granted and junketting on scarce financial resources, while calling on citizens to tighten their belts.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0 <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Mr Onanuga, in his reaction on X worsened matters by declaring: \u201cPresident Tinubu is on leave for two weeks. He is not restricted to the UK. It is his private time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cHe can go to anywhere he so desires. He is still observing his leave.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The comments led to a fresh barrage of criticisms directed at him and his principal.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_241012_223622_029.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu travel as he pleases while observing his annual vacation? Commentators on social media do not think so. The raging controversy on social media was exacerbated after his media aide, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, reacted to blistering vituperations\u00a0 over his movement between two European countries. Omanuga said the president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":68704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2423,2054,5339],"class_list":["post-91967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-france","tag-leave","tag-onanuga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91967","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=91967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91967\/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=91967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}