ADC spokesperson knocks Tinubu over Europe journey

The spokesperson for the African Democratic Congress, Bolaji Abdullahi, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s choice to journey to Europe amid rising safety considerations within the nation, describing the transfer as insensitive and alarming.

Abdullahi expressed the place in a press release titled ‘PBAT’s lack of care scary’, and posted on his official X account on Sunday.

His response adopted PidomNigeria On-line’s report that the President had departed Nigeria for Europe forward of his participation within the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Summit, the place he’s anticipated to interact international leaders on local weather motion, financial reforms and sustainable improvement.

Nevertheless, Abdullahi argued that the President’s overseas journey got here at a troubling second, because the nation grapples with renewed insecurity, together with a lethal bomb blast in Zamfara State and heightened public anxiousness following the USA’ army strike on Nigerian soil.

In response to him, Nigerians had been nonetheless ready for reassurance from the President when information of his journey broke.

“Within the wake of yet one more lethal bomb blast in Zamfara, to which the President has not stated a single phrase; on the again of an unprecedented overseas army assault on Nigerian soil; proper in the course of all of the uncertainty it has provoked; with a confused and scared nation ready for the President to talk to us and guarantee us that every one is nicely, the subsequent factor we hear is that the President has gone on vacation. What a President”,  the assertion learn.

The ADC spokesperson careworn that the President’s silence on vital nationwide safety points, coupled together with his absence from the nation, raised severe considerations about management responsiveness at a time of nationwide misery.

PidomNigeria On-line stories that Tinubu departed Lagos for Europe on Sunday, as a part of his end-of-year break, forward of his official go to to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

An announcement by the Particular Adviser on Data and Technique, Bayo Onanuga, on Sunday, famous that the President is scheduled to take part within the 2026 version of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week Summit, following an invite from the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The summit is anticipated to be held in early January.

Onanuga famous that the weeklong occasion would convey collectively leaders from authorities, enterprise and civil society to advance international conversations on sustainable improvement.

The 2026 summit will probably be held underneath the theme, ‘The Nexus of Subsequent: All Techniques Go’, and can deal with connecting innovation, finance and folks to drive sustainable progress.