{"id":12810,"date":"2023-03-22T20:05:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12810"},"modified":"2023-03-22T20:08:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:08:33","slug":"tinubu-jets-out-to-rest-ahead-of-may-29-inauguration-lesser-hajj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12810","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Jets Out To Rest Ahead Of May 29 Inauguration, Lesser Hajj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Ahead of the May 29 inauguration, the President-elect, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bola_Tinubu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asiwaju Bola Tinubu<\/a> on Tuesday night travelled abroad to rest and plan his transition programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He is also to use the trip to undertake a spiritual exercise in Saudi Arabia, where he is billed to observe Umrah, the lesser Hajj and Ramadan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A statement by his media aide, Tunde Rahman in Abuja on Wednesday said Tinubu \u201cleft the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja for Europe Tuesday night after the exhaustive campaign and election season.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The terse statement reads: \u201cThe President-elect decided to take a break after the hectic campaign and election season to rest in Paris and London, preparatory to going to Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj) and the Ramadan Fasting that begins Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhile away, the President-elect will also use the opportunity to plan his transition programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe is expected back in the country soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An online platform had reported that the President-elect was flown abroad as a result of ill health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But in the statement, Rahman debunked the report and \u201cenjoin the media to stop publishing rumours and unsubstantiated claims and to always seek clarifications from our office.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the May 29 inauguration, the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on Tuesday night travelled abroad to rest and plan his transition programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6685,6684],"class_list":["post-12810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lesser-hajj","tag-may-29-inauguration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12812,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions\/12812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}