President Bola Tinubu has left Abuja and is heading to France.
The President, along with several of his senior aides, departed on an Airbus A330 business jet from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, at 4:08 p.m., according to PUNCH Online.
Earlier on Monday, sources familiar with the President’s itinerary confirmed that the plane had arrived in Abuja at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, following a nearly five-hour journey from EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in France.
“The plane arrived yesterday, and the President will be using it to travel to France today,” said a Presidency official who asked not to be named.
On Sunday evening, Tinubu’s spokesperson, Mr. Ajuri Ngelale, revealed that the President will make his fourth visit to the European country on Monday, August 19, leaving from Abuja, the capital of Nigeria.
Although the Presidency did not state the purpose and duration of Mr. Tinubu’s visit, it said, “The President will return to the country after his brief work stay in France.”
The altered jet is among the trio of presidential planes recently confiscated by a French court on behalf of a Chinese company, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited, in a conflict with the Ogun State Government.
