President Bola Tinubu has returned to Nigeria following a week of quiet about his whereabouts at the end of the United Nations General Assembly’s 78th session in New York.
Concerns were raised concerning the president’s schedule after members of the delegation that accompanied him to the United States came home.
Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communication, Innovation, and Digital Economy; and Femi Gbajabiamila, President’s Chief of Staff, were among those who accompanied him to the United States.
Ajuri Ngelale, the presidential spokesman, had remained mute about Tinubu’s whereabouts since he left New York on September 22.
The president’s whereabouts were unknown until he returned to Nigeria on Friday night, despite unsubstantiated allegations that he flew from New York to Paris.
While in the United States, the Nigerian president addressed the United Nations General Assembly, stating that his country supports the world body’s objectives and guiding principles of peace, security, human rights, and development.
Tinubu, as Chairman of ECOWAS, asked for assistance in re-establishing democratic administration in a way that meets the nation’s political and economic difficulties, especially violent extremists who aim to cause instability in our area.
He also visited with other Nigerians in the United States, where he pushed them to adjust their thinking in order to achieve.
Tinubu urged Nigerians in the diaspora to return home, stressing that Nigeria has arrived and that they should forget the frustrations of the previous year’s leadership, during the Presidential Town Hall Meeting.
Following his meeting with Nigerians, he met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who stated that African governments would begin to take proper action against individuals who illegally siphon and smuggle out the continent’s immense mineral wealth.
The Nigerian president informed the UN Secretary-General that human rights had been used to prevent steps against individuals who smuggle African resources and Western-made weaponry into the country.
In addition, he rang the bell at the National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System in New York, the world’s financial capital.