{"id":177707,"date":"2025-09-05T06:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:23:25","slug":"inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president","title":{"rendered":"INEC Technical Glitches Grant Nigeria Vacation President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s departure to Europe for a working vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Dalung described Tinubu as a \u201cvacation president\u201d produced by the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s, INEC, \u201ctechnical glitches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency had announced that Tinubu departed Abuja on September 4 to begin a 10-day working vacation in Europe as part of his 2025 annual leave.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Tinubu will spend the period between France and the United Kingdom before returning to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Thursday, Dalung said the outcome of the 2023 elections had left the country with a leader who prioritises leisure while Nigerians face worsening insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the tragic outcome of INEC\u2019s so-called technical glitches \u2014 a conspiracy that has produced a vacation president whose idea of a social contract with Nigerians is sheer entitlement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time of escalating insecurity, Tinubu chooses leisure in Europe while the nation drifts. Nigeria is on autopilot, navigating turbulence with clueless, sleeping pilots. Lord, have mercy on this country,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s departure to Europe for a working vacation. Dalung described Tinubu as a \u201cvacation president\u201d produced by the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s, INEC, \u201ctechnical glitches.\u201d The Presidency had announced that Tinubu departed Abuja on September 4 to begin a 10-day working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":177706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[4603,18550,254],"class_list":["post-177707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-dalung","tag-iinec","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>INEC Technical Glitches Grant Nigeria Vacation President - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s departure to Europe for a workin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC Technical Glitches Grant Nigeria Vacation President\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s departure to Europe for a workin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-05T05:59:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-05T07:23:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757044572.231365.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"388\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"INEC Technical Glitches Grant Nigeria Vacation President\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-05T05:59:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-05T07:23:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president\"},\"wordCount\":205,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1757044572.231365.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"dalung\",\"IINEC\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-technical-glitches-grant-nigeria-vacation-president\",\"name\":\"INEC Technical Glitches Grant Nigeria Vacation President - 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