The camp of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has reacted to reports of the “President-elect”, Bola Tinubu departing Nigeria for Europe.
Daniel Bwala, the PDP Campaign spokesman, revealed on Wednesday (just like SaharaReporters exclusively reported) that Tinubu’s trip was a medical follow-up and not a working trip, as stated by his media team.
Bwala who made this known on his verified Twitter handle on Tuesday noted that calling Tinubu’s journey a working trip was wrong because he was not the president yet.
He said Tinubu's media people should learn to humanise him so that they did not have to make lies statecraft.
He 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 humanise 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.”
After SaharaReporters’ exclusive story that Tinubu left Nigeria for Europe on a medical trip, a statement by Tunde Rahman from the Office of the “President-elect” claimed that Tinubu left for Europe on a working visit.
Meanwhile, the claim that the trip to Europe was a working visit was a cover-up as sources had told SaharaReporters that Tinubu was returning to France to see his doctors.
According to the statement issued on Wednesday, Tinubu would “use the opportunity of the trip to fine-tune the transition plans and programmes, and his policy options with some of his key aides without unnecessary pressures and distractions”.