President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled his one-day official visit to Imo State billed for Tuesday (Today), Igbere TV can report.
Igbere TV reports that the President was expected in Imo to commission, among other projects, a statue of him, constructed by the Imo state government.
Igbere TV gathered that an advance team of aides and journalists of the President, have already arrived Owerri for the anticipated visit.
But in a statement made available to Igbere TV on Tuesday, the state government said the visit was postponed as the president was yet to return from Saudi Arabia where he performed this year’s holy pilgrimage.
The statement was signed by the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Sam Onwuemeodo.
“We humbly wish to inform the general public and Imo people in particular that His Excellency, the president and Commander -in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, has not returned from Saudi Arabia where he is at the moment with other Muslims from all parts of the world on pilgrimage.
“Against the backdrop of this development, the scheduled visit of the president to Imo State for the commissioning of some key projects of Governor Rochas Okorocha on Tuesday May 21, 2019 (today) has been postponed,” the statement read.
While pleading for understanding of the people of the state, the CPS said that a new date for the visit will also be made public in due course.
