Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has denied remarks in some sections that the absence of President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima in Nigeria has created leadership vacuum.
Both Tinubu and Shettima are out of the country. While the President is on leave and widely believed to be in France, his Vice left Nigeria for Sweden on Wednesday for an official visit.
It however provoked suggestion that their absence means Nigeria currently has no leader to which Onanuga reacted to via a statement saying, “Following enquiries by journalists as to who is in charge of our country as the President and Vice President are out of the country, we want to clarify:
“It is important to note that the President and Vice President are fully engaged with the nation’s affairs, even while they are away. There is no leadership vacuum in the country.
“The Constitution, a testament to our adaptability in the virtual age, does not explicitly require the physical presence of either the president or the vice president in the country at all times to fulfil his duties.”