President Bola Tinubu will later today (Tuesday) return to Abuja after spending 12 days in Europe in what the presidency described as “working vacation.”
The president jetted off to Europe on September 4th after several foreign trips that took him to Brazil and Japan.
Confirming his return in a statement issued on Monday, his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga said that. “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has concluded his work vacation ahead of schedule and will return to Abuja on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, to resume official duties.”
With his early return, the President is expected to preside over the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting later in the week.
Sources at the Presidency told FACTSHEET that the president may deliver a national broadcast to announce the termination of the state of emergency rule he imposed on March 13, 2025 on Rivers State.
While the president was on his “working vacation” in Europe, he was hosted by French President, Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris in what the president’s handlers described as a “private luncheon.”
Though the presidency had announced that the “working vacation” would be split between France and the United Kingdom, there is no public record indicating that the president visited the UK in his 12-day sojourn in Europe.
This visit was the seventh time President Bola Tinubu will be going to France since he took office on May 29, 2023.
Before now, France was a marginal European ally of Nigeria, but since Tinubu took over office, he has visited France more than any Nigerian leader before him.
