MIRIAM NNOLI 
Laolu Akande, a former presidential spokesman has said it is not ideal for President Bola Tinubu and his Vice, Kashim Shettima to leave governance for foreign trips simultaneously.
New Telegraph had earlier reported that Tinubu departed Nigeria on October 2, 2024, for a two-week work leave in the United Kingdom and later departed to France.
Also, Shettima left Abuja on Wednesday for Sweden on a two-day visit to represent Nigeria in bilateral engagements with the Scandinavian nation.
Akande who spoke in an interview on Thursday said, “It is important for one of them to be on the ground because the work of governance requires a lot of hand-holding.
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“In my view, we still have a very serious problem of sustained trust in the relationship between the President and the Vice President over time.
“The ideal thing is for us not to have a situation where both the president and the vice president are not in town, that’s the ideal situation.” He stated.
