Incessant travels: CUPP demands fitness test for Tinubu

Private visit must remain private, says HURIWA

FOLLOWING President Bola Tinubu’s travel of the country to France, last week, on “private visit”, Coalition of United Political Parties ( CUPP) has demanded a comprehensive health fitness test for him.

CUPP’S National Secretary, Peter Ameh, in a statement, yesterday, wondered why Tinubu would embark on a private visit to Paris, when Nigerians were in dire need of a leader to address security and infrastructural challenges in the country.

“It is our hope and belief that these private trips do not involve something untoward that is hidden from Nigerians, who voted for him to salvage the country, which has been on a downward spiral.

“Tongues have begun to wag, and speculations abound on the real reasons for these private trips. We hope Nigeria is not about to witness a Buhari 2.0 presidency, when, from time to time, without any form of announcement, the President would sneak out of the country to a foreign country for medical treatment in the name of private visit,” CUPP stated.

The group reminded Tinubu to realise that Nigeria is beset, on all sides, by insecurity, galloping inflation, starvation and unemployment that is running wild, and out of control.

It added: “The value of the naira is speeding southward with our currency exchanging at almost N1,500 to the United States dollar.

“CUPP feels and recommends that the country needs a hands- on- deck president, and whatever the reason for these private visits can be conveniently handled in Nigeria or in the absence of such a facility being available, provision should be urgently made to have it brought to the country.

“Nigeria needs the physi

Scal presence of their President to have that assurance that the job of President has not been outsourced to those who have no business exercising it.” IMILARLY, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria ( HURIWA) also urged Tinubu to open up on his health status, and use his personal resources for private visits.

National Coordinator of HURIWA, Emmanuel Onwubiko, noted, yesterday, that the President is entitled, just like every other citizen, to his private times, adding, however, that there are norms and ethical codes he must observe.

Director, Commercial and Industrial Development, Niger Delta Development Commission ( NDDC), Dr. Godwin Nosiri ( left); beneficiary of the Commercial and Industrial Development training, Onyema Godspower; Chief of Staff to the NDDC Managing Director, Rev Julius Oworibo and Lead Consultant for the training, Solomon Edebiri presenting welding equipment to Godspower during the graduation of trainees, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State… at the weekend.