Nigeria’s President-Elect, Bola Tinubu on Saturday returned to Nigeria with eight days left for his official inauguration as President of Nigeria.
Tinubu was received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja on Saturday evening by APC chieftains, including Governors and National Assembly members.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) powerbroker had left the country for Europe about 10 days ago to meet with investors and finetune transition plans, his spokesman, Tunde Rahman, had said.
The President-Elect had met with the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, during his stay in Europe.
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Meanwhile, his return is coming amidst the festering crisis for Presiding positions in the 10th National Assembly, slated to be inaugurated in June.
According to credible sources around Tinubu, the National Assembly leadership crisis among other pressing issues was what prompted Tinubu to make a U-turn to arrive in the country yesterday from France earlier than he planned.
It was gathered that in a bid to ensure that the crisis doesn’t snowball into a complicated one, a rather disturbed National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, reportedly sent words of urgent concern to the President-Elect to return to the country as soon as possible.
According to a source who did not want to be named: ‘The president-elect was earlier scheduled to return on Tuesday, but the national chairman, Adamu Abdullahi, was said to have sent words to him on Thursday night that he was losing grip of the protests against the zoning issue.’
Similarly, as the president-elect arrived Abuja, the aggrieved speakership aspirants under the umbrella of the G-6 met with the Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives. All members of the G-6, except Wase, who was at the Airport to receive Tinubu, were present at the meeting which held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.