ADC raises alarm over Tinubu, Shettima’s absence from Nigeria

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has criticised the simultaneous absence of President Bola Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima from Nigeria, describing the situation as a “very dangerous precedent”.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, made the position known on Monday while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today, amid questions over who is constitutionally exercising presidential authority in the country.
Tinubu has been out of Nigeria since August 30 on what the Presidency described as a working vacation, while Shettima left Abuja on September 20 for New York to represent the President at the 81st United Nations General Assembly.
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