Legal practitioner and political analyst, Liborous Oshoma, has called on President Bola Tinubu to reduce his foreign travels and prioritize addressing Nigeria’s pressing security and poverty challenges.
Oshoma made the appeal on Friday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today.
“The President will go on a working visit to France and on each of those working visits, you can imagine the number of entourage; governors, ministers, and the likes regardless of the cost.
“Then in all of that, we are talking about tightening our belt. It’s like we are at Structural Adjustment Programme, SAP, of IBB era, when the government said tighten your belt.
“The President will say I know that my policies have brought untold hardship on you, so bear with me, these policies are the bitter pills we need to swallow. As much as people want to bear these pains of hardship, they also want to see the president bearing.
“But the idea is when there’s bad insecurity anywhere, the president jets out of the country. It’s so bad now that insecurity has become so normal.
“I think the president should reduce foreign trips and focus on domestic challenges,” he added.
Since his inauguration, President Tinubu has reportedly undertaken 46 foreign trips, spending a cumulative 192 days outside Nigeria as of October 2025.
