Director of Publicity for the APC, Bala Ibrahim, said on Wednesday that the rumour about Tinubu was unfounded.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has knocked off the rumour that President Bola Tinubu travelled to the United Kingdom for medical purposes after his official Paris trip.
The president was scheduled to return to Nigeria last weekend after the Paris summit organised by French President Emmanuel Macron.
However, his Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communication and Strategy, Dele Alake, announced on Saturday that he (Tinubu) proceeded on a private visit to London.
On Monday, Tinubu met his predecessor former President Muhammadu Buhari in London.
Tinubu was in the UK for several months in 2021 for knee surgery.
His last-minute private visit got critics insinuating that the former Lagos governor probably used the trip as a smokescreen to visit his doctors.
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However, Director of Publicity for the APC, Bala Ibrahim, told PUNCH on Wednesday that the rumour about Tinubu was unfounded.
“Why is it that every time the president travels, people will speculate that he went for treatment? Yet, not once did any of these speculations come to pass. Everything they speculated against the president didn’t materialise. For God’s sake, why can’t they jettison this mentality of ‘the man is sick?’
“When you investigate, you will discover those making these silly statements are not doctors. Some are even mechanics. Who is healthy? They should even look at what nature is doing. About three of the speculators have died while the man is moving,” he said.
