The presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi has revealed that Bola Tinubu has spent 180 days out of 580 on trips abroad.
Obi said this at a media chat on Thursday in Abuja on the state of the nation, while adding that Nigeria needed selfless and exemplary leadership in 2025.
“Mr. President, out of the approximately 580 days (as at December 29, 2024) you have been in office, it is reported that you have spent over 30%, or around 180 days, on more than 30 publicly recorded overseas trips,” Obi said.
According to report, Tinubu was sworn in on May 29, 2023 and has spent 584 days in office as at January 2, 2025.
Tinubu has not travelled out of the country this year as he is currently on holiday in Lagos State, Tinubu in 2023 and 2024 visited not less than 16 countries, including some he visited more than once.
He visited Malabo, Equatorial Guinea; London, the United Kingdom (four times); Bissau, Guinea-Bissau (twice); Nairobi, Kenya; Porto Norvo, Benin Republic; The Hague, Netherlands; Pretoria, South Africa; Accra, Ghana; New Delhi, India; Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates; New York, the United States of America; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (twice); Berlin, Germany; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Dakar, Senegal and Doha, Qatar.
Among the trips that generated interests was on August 29 to Beijing, China, where President Tinubu held bilateral talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and subsequently attended the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, before departing China for the UK, where he spent seven days, and returned on September 14.
The following month on October 2, a day after attending the 64th Independence Day anniversary, Tinubu departed Abuja for the UK again for a two-week working leave.
He spent nine days there and proceeded to Paris, France, for an ‘important engagement’, according to his Senior Special Assistant on Political and Other Matters, Ibrahim Masari.
Tinubu’s government further spent N2.3bn on foreign trips and related expenses within six months in 2024, according to data from GovSpend, a portal documenting the Presidential Villa expenditure.The highlights covered the costs associated with presidential travel.
