TV analyst Oshoma urges Tinubu to reduce foreign travels, sit down and focus on local challenges
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
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“The President will go on a working visit to France and on each of those working visits, you can imagine the number of entourage; Governors, Ministers, and the like regardless of the cost.
“Then in all of that, we are talking about tightening our belt. It’s like we are at Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of IBB era, when the government said tighten your belt.
“[Tinubu] will say I know that my policies have brought untold hardship on you, so bear with me, these policies are the bitter pills we need to swallow. As much as people want to bear these pains of hardship, they also want to see the president bearing.
“But the idea is when there’s bad insecurity anywhere, the President jets out of the country. It’s so bad now that insecurity has become so normal.
“I think the President should reduce foreign trips and focus on domestic challenges” – Oshoma.
Since his inauguration on 29 May 2023, the President has reportedly taken 46 trips abroad, spending a total 192 days outside the country as of October 2025 – costing the treasury millions of dollars in jet fuel, aircraft maintenance, hotel bills and estacode allowances for himself and his plethora of aides, among other items.
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Lawyer and political analyst Liborous Oshoma has advised Bola Tinubu to reduce his foreign trips and focus on his job in Nigeria, a country buffeted by security and poverty among other challenges.
Since his inauguration on 29 May 2023, the President has reportedly taken 46 trips abroad, spending a total 192 days outside the country as of October 2025 – costing the treasury millions of dollars in jet fuel, aircraft maintenance, hotel bills and estacode allowances for himself and his plethora of aides, among other items.
Tinubu – who critics dubbed more of Tourism Minister than President – embarked on his latest gallivanting on October 12, this time to Rome, a month after he returned from “vacation” in France, and less that two months after he returned from Brazil in August after a blitz from Japan in the Far East to Brazil in South America.
He had first visited both Saint Lucia and the same Brazil in July, besides his quarterly “working visits” to France where his friend and business partner, Gilber Chagoury, lives in retirement away from Lagos where he was born, raised, worked most of his life, and became a billionaire.
Oshoma cautioned Tinubu on Channels Television to reduce the number of his foreign travels in order to show a good leadership example and help save funds to tackle national challenges such as poverty, hunger, insecurity, low agricultural and manufacturing output; and raise budgets for health and education, among others.
“The President will go on a working visit to France and on each of those working visits, you can imagine the number of entourage; Governors, Ministers, and the like regardless of the cost,” said Oshoma, who is also a regular guest on Arise TV.
“Then in all of that, we are talking about tightening our belt. It’s like we are at Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of IBB era, when the government said tighten your belt.
“[Tinubu] will say I know that my policies have brought untold hardship on you, so bear with me, these policies are the bitter pills we need to swallow. As much as people want to bear these pains of hardship, they also want to see the president bearing.
“But the idea is when there’s bad insecurity anywhere, the President jets out of the country. It’s so bad now that insecurity has become so normal.
“I think the President should reduce foreign trips and focus on domestic challenges.”
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