The whereabouts of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has taken center state, on social media, after Vice President Kashim Shetima canceled his trip to the United States on Monday, citing a fault in the presidential aircraft. The Vice President was originally scheduled to represent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 2024 US-Africa Business Summit, hosted by the Corporate Council on Africa.
The intended trip would have left the country without a president and a vice in charge, eliciting reactions from a cross section of Nigerians, including Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who in a post on X, asked, if it was right to assume that Nigeria was on autopilot?
In a twist of events, the vice president’s media aide, Stanley Nkwocha, in a statement said, Shettima was unable to make the trip following a technical fault with his aircraft, forcing him to make a detour on the advice of the Presidential Air Fleet, adding that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar will now represent the President at the high profile Summit in Dallas, Texas, while the Vice President will carry on with other national duties.
Rivers State Governor, Sim Fubara, on monday, opened up about the peace accord brokered by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over the political crisis that erupted in the State last year, calling it unconstitutional. Fubara made the comments when he received a delegation of political and traditional leaders, from Bayelsa state.
The Governor also slammed the members of the State House of Assembly led by Martin Amaewhule, and declared that the 27 lawmakers do not exist anymore in the eyes of the law. Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has reacted to reports, alleging that the Lagos state government is deporting alleged miscreants reported to be indigenes of Osun state, from Lagos to the Ilesa area of the State.
Over the weekend, reports emerged online, stating that the Nigeria Police Force, in conjunction with the Lagos State Task Force, deported hundreds of residents using luxurious buses from the streets of lagos, and dumped them in Osun State.
In a statement released by Adeleke’s media Aide, both governors have interfaced and have expressed concern over the report. Adeleke has urged Sanwo-Olu to look into the report, and put an end to it if the report were to be true. Sanwo Olu on the other hand has denied ever authorising such an action, and promised an immediate investigation.
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