The confirmation came in a statement released Monday by Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to return to Nigeria on Monday, the presidency has confirmed, following an almost three-week stay in France.The confirmation came in a statement released Monday by Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will return home today,” Onanuga stated in a post on X.On April 2, 2025, SaharaReporters reported that Nigerian president Bola Tinubu was once again travelling to France, in what the presidency described as a two-week “working visit.”This development was confirmed in a statement by Onanuga, who said that during the “short working visit,” Tinubu would review his administration’s achievements so far.
BackgroundSimilarly, in February 2024, President Tinubu spent 13 days in Paris, the capital of France.A statement issued by his then aide, Ajuri Ngelale, announced the President’s departure from Nigeria on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, for a “private visit.”“President Bola Tinubu departs Abuja for Paris, France, on Wednesday, January 24, 2024, for a private visit. He will return to the country in the first week of February 2024,” Ngelale said in a statement released at the time.However, sources told SaharaReporters that the trip was actually for medical leave.“It is a medical leave because the so-called private visit is for the President to see his doctors in France,” a Presidency source had said.SaharaReporters had previously reported that after the May 29 swearing-in, Tinubu became exhausted and went on bed rest. The outlet also exclusively reported that Tinubu had returned to France weeks before his inauguration on May 29 to see his doctors.“He is returning to France to see his doctors ahead of the stress of the inauguration period so he can prepare for his swearing-in,” a top source in the ruling All Progressives Congress had told the newspaper.On May 1, 2023, SaharaReporters exclusively reported that Tinubu had visited Lagos for medical rest and to see some of his doctors, who had arrived in the country to provide him with follow-up care.It was also learned that some members of the medical team who had treated Tinubu in France were in Lagos to provide the then-president-elect with follow-up treatment, which is ongoing care given to a patient after completing initial treatment for an illness.