President Bola Tinubu has not yet returned to Nigeria following his official state visit to the Republic of Türkiye.
The president left the country on Monday, January 26, for Ankara, where he participated in several diplomatic and official engagements.
Earlier, the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr Bayo Onanuga, had stated that President Tinubu would return to Nigeria after completing the visit. However, no timeline was provided regarding the end of the trip or the president’s return date.
As of the time of filing this report, attempts to determine whether the visit had formally concluded or to confirm the president’s return date were unsuccessful.
Mr Onanuga and Mr Daniel Bwala, Special Adviser to the President on Policy Communication, could not be reached for comments. Calls and messages sent to their phone numbers, including WhatsApp messages, had not been replied to.
Meanwhile, sources within the Presidency disclosed that the visit included business engagements involving Nigerian and Turkish business leaders, as well as meetings with senior government officials. Some of these engagements, the sources said, may still be ongoing.
According to one of the sources, certain aspects of the president’s activities during the visit were not expected to be immediately broadcast, but the federal government would make public the outcomes of the bilateral engagements in due course.
“The fact that the President is not seen physically in Türkiye today (Thursday) does not mean that meetings and engagements are not ongoing.
“Not everything will be on television immediately. The important thing is that when the President and members of his entourage return, Nigerians will be fully briefed on the outcomes,” the source said.
At the conclusion of bilateral talks on Wednesday, officials from Nigeria and Türkiye signed nine agreements aimed at deepening cooperation across key sectors.
(DAILY TRUST)
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