Breaking: President Tinubu Departs Abuja to Begin 2025 Annual Leave, Locations Emerge
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FCT, Abuja - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will depart Abuja to commence his 2025 annual leave.
Tinubu is expected to depart Abuja on Thursday, September 4, 2025, for a working vacation in Europe.
The Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said the vacation will last 10 working days.
Onanuga said President Tinubu will spend the period between France and the United Kingdom and then return to the country.
The presidential aide made this known in a statement made available to Legit.ng on Thursday, September 4, 2025.
Nigerians react as Tinubu begins annual leave
Legit.ng compiled reactions from the Special Assistant to President Tinubu on Social Media, Olusegun Dada X handle @DOlusegun
@aiwamofe
Why working leave. He is entitled to annual leave. Let him go for the leave and make in rest well. What type of working visit is that. Baba is going for strategic meeting not leave.
@amkareto
Someone said there is nothing like working vacation, it is either you are working or vacating. I don't think so bro. "Working vacation" is a concept and is commonly referred to as a workcation (a portmanteau of "work" and "vacation"), where individuals work remotely.
@__ManOfPeace__
Did the president transmit power to the vice president while on this vacation?
Or Is he not expected to?
@AlphaOne692106
He just came back from Brazil, dropped a lamba about foreign exchange and is off again to Europe, may God deliver Nigeria, that's all we ask of Him.
@princeDaniel_O
Is this a joke or what. It's like the Nigerian presidency is now for looking after people in their old ages. The way he is traveling you will think he has never left the shores of Nigeria before becoming president. Please stop wasting our common wealth. It is our money not yours.
@Primeusafrican
Why would the president of the biggest black nation on earth go to Europe ? Do you see the Europeans coming to do vacation here? What is all this nonsense SMH what happened to vacation in Obudu or Mambilla Plateau?
Tinubu blames opposition for early campaigns
Recall that President Tinubu made a serious allegation against opposition parties in the country ahead of the 2027 election.
Tinubu blamed the opposition parties for dragging the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) into an early campaign.
Legit.ng reports that the national opposition coalition has been working on how to unseat and sack Tinubu in the 2027 presidential elections.
Health insurance: Tinubu issues orders to agencies
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that President Tinubu directed the SGF to tell the MDAs in a service-wide circular to mandate their staff to comply and enrol in the national health insurance scheme.
Onanuga announced the directive in a statement on Wednesday, September 3, 2025.
President Tinubu also called for a closer, further and constructive engagement with the private sector on the new law so that businesses will not be constrained unduly.
Source: Legit.ng
