Peter Obi Faults President Tinubu Trip To Brazil, Frequent Foreign Travel

Peter Obi Faults President Tinubu Trip To Brazil, Frequent Foreign Travel
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#Politics #Brazil #Lulu #Obi #Tinubu ©August 15th, 2025 ®August 15, 2025 1:47 pm Co-contestants in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria and former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi has faulted President Bola Ahmed Tinubu trip to Brazil and also condemned the President frequent travel abroad at any slightest invitation and abandoned  pressing issues of insecurity and other deplorable situations that make the Nation bleeds, specifically, Peter Obi said; “the situation we find ourselves in is deeply worrisome, Our President, who has not found it worthy to visit any of our troubled states, takes joy in travelling to foreign countries at the slightest invitation or excuse, Often departing several days even before the events he’s invited to”

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Co contestants in the last concluded general elections in Nigeria
and former governor of Anambra State, pet Obi has faulted
President Bola armed tanubu trip to Brazil and also condemned
the president frequent travel abroad at any slightest invitation and
abandoned pressing issues of insecurity and other deplorable situations that
make the nation bleeds. Specifically, pet Obi said, the situation

(00:24):
we find ourselves in is deeply worrisome. Our President, who
has not found it worthy to visit any of our
troubled states, takes joy in traveling to foreign countries at
the slightest invitation or excuse, often departing several days even
before the events he's invited to. The Presidency had, in
a statement on Wednesday, said that President Bola Tanubu will

(00:46):
depart Abuja on Thursday, August fourteenth for a two nation
trip to Japan and Brazil. The President will stop over
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates before proceeding to Japan. In Japan,
President Tanubu will attend the ninth Tokyo International Conference on
African Development TICAD nine in the city of Yokohama. From

(01:09):
August twentieth to twenty two with the theme co Create
Innovative Solutions with Africa. TICAD nine will focus on Africa's
economic transformation and improvements in the business environment and institutions
through private investment and innovation. It will also promote a
resilient and sustainable African society for human security, peace and stability.

(01:33):
In addition to attending cleanery sessions on themes linked to
the conference, the Nigerian President will hold by lateral meetings
and meet the chief executive offices of some Japanese companies
with investments in Nigeria. Initiated in nineteen ninety three by
the Japanese government and co hosted by the United Nations UNDP,

(01:54):
the African Union Commission, and the World Bank, TICAD is
a triennial conference held alternately in Japan and Africa. The
last one took place in August twenty twenty two in Tunisia.
The forum foster's high level policy dialogue between African leaders
and development partners. At the end of the TICAD nine,

(02:16):
President Tanubu will leave for Brazilia, the capital of the
Federated Republic of Brazil, on a two day state visit.
From Sunday, August twenty fourth to Monday August twenty fifth.
This follows an invitation by the Brazilian President Luis Aetio
Lula da Silva. While in Brazil, President Tanubu will hold

(02:36):
a bilateral meeting with his host and attender business forum
with Brazilian investors. His delegation, comprising key ministers and senior officials,
will explore opportunities to strengthen cooperation and sign agreements and
memoranda of understanding maos with the Brazilian government. Bao on Anuga,
special Advisor to the President on Information and Strategy, stated

(02:59):
on Augus thirteenth, twenty twenty five. Peter Hoby, the Labor
Party presidential candidate in the last concluded general elections in
the West Africa country, in a statement on Thursday, said, again,
our president moves as the nation bleeds amid the deplorable
state of our nation. In all ramifications, we have a

(03:20):
virtually indifferent president who has continued to display insensitivity to
our situation. How can anyone explain that a president who
came from Brazil recently and met with the president is
returning to the same country, leaving the various degrees of
challenges at home unresolved. The latest itinery of the President
shows he will depart Abouja on Thursday, August fourteenth for

(03:43):
a two nation trip to Japan and Brazil. The President
will stop over in Dubai, United Arab Emirates before proceeding
to Japan. In Japan, President Tanubu will attend the ninth
Tokyo International Conference on African Development TICADAS E nine in
the city of Yokohama from August twentieth to twenty two.

(04:04):
The itinery is silent on the president's return date to
his visibly troubled nation. The situation we find ourselves in
is deeply worrisome. Our president, who has not found it
worthy to visit any of our troubled states, takes joy
in traveling to foreign countries at the slightest invitationer excuse,
often departing several days even before the events he's invited too.

(04:29):
In his last trip, for instance, he had a one
week's state visit to Saint Lucia before attending the Bricks Summit,
where Nigeria was merely invited as an observer, though the
role was dressed up as partner to the invitation, which
was more significant the leaders of actual member countries who
attended only arrived a day or two at most for

(04:49):
the event. Nigeria's insecurity situation, economic hardship, and human suffering
have reached their peak. We are now counted among the
most in secure nations, the most fragile economies, and the
hungriest countries in the world. This dire reality demands the
full attention of mister President and his travels should be

(05:11):
more within our troubled states and communities, spending time on
the ground and taking decisive action to alleviate the people's suffering,
rather than these overseas conferences that contribute little or no
tangible value to our nation's woes, and where the trip
is necessary at all, it could be attended in just
a few days, rather than indulging in prolonged, unnecessary absences

(05:33):
from a country that requires twenty four to seven attention.
What our nation needs now is security of lives and properties,
economic stability, and ensuring that our people have food on
their table. Our presidents plan trip of twelve days departing today,
if necessary, should have been at most of five day trip,
as the event he was invited to in Japan commences

(05:56):
on the twentieth Nigeria today demands competent leadership with capacity
and compassion to start dealing with the problems besetting it
with the presence and sacrifice required. Mister President must, as
a matter of urgency, commence towards of our states with
the same enthusiasm he shows for jetting out of the
country every month. These visits will enable him to see, listen,

(06:20):
and learn more about what Nigerians are going through. Though
Nigerians know that our huge problems cannot be solved overnight,
they want to see one hundred percent effort and tireless
commitment to solving them. Most importantly, our president must know
that he's not a tourist but the chief executive of
a troubled nation. So he must have consciousness, strict work

(06:41):
schedules and a strict traveling schedule to show that he
has a troubled country to quickly return to. Lady Quindi
Uini in amolgical way,