The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar’s camp, has claimed that Tinubu’s trip to Europe is a medical follow-up and not a working one, as his media team has stated.
The Quest Times had reported that President-elect Bola Tinubu left Nigeria for Europe on Wednesday afternoon.
Tinubu’s spokesperson Tunde Rahman said in a statement that Tinubu will use the trip to fine-tune transition plans and programmes, as well as his policy options with some of his key aides, without undue pressure and distractions.
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However, Atiku’s spokesman, Daniel Bwala, while reacting to the report, said Tinubu’s trip is a medical follow-up and not a working trip.
He said calling Tinubu’s journey a working trip is wrong because he’s not the president yet.
Tweeting, Bwala wrote: “Now they have learned to call the medical follow-up trip a working trip. Hold on; he is not yet the president, so technically, it is wrong to call it a working trip or visit. His media people should learn to humanize him so they do not have to make lies statecraft.
“We have seen the movie before. Whilst PMB’s media people were busy saying the president is on a working trip or visit, PMB keeps saying “I have never been this sick before”. I thought Tinubu’s media aides would learn from that; alas if it didn’t Dey, it didn’t Dey.”
We have seen the movie before. Whilst PMB’s media people were busy saying the president is on a working trip or visit, PMB keeps saying “I have never been this sick before”. I thought Tinubu’s media aides would learn from that; alas if it didn’t Dey, it didn’t Dey
— D. H Bwala (@BwalaDaniel) May 10, 2023