Atiku questions Tinubu over Umrah trip announcement

From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of using his announced Umrah pilgrimage as a smokescreen to allegedly undertake a trip to France.
Atiku, in a statement by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Campaign Council, said there was reason to believe that President Tinubu “might just make a brief appearance in Makkah before proceeding to France.”
Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga had, in a statement on Wednesday, announced that the President would depart Abuja on Thursday for Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to perform Umrah, noting that ...