In a statement issued on Saturday in Abuja, the party’s Interim National Publicity Secretary, Tony Akeni, described the president’s latest trip as evidence of an “allergy to staying home” to address the nation’s pressing issues.

President Tinubu departed Nigeria on Thursday for a 10-day working vacation in France and the United Kingdom, part of his 2025 annual leave. 

The trip has ignited controversy, with critics pointing to Nigeria’s struggles with rampant poverty, insecurity, and deteriorating healthcare services. 

Akeni highlighted that, according to available records, 135 million Nigerians slipped into poverty within the first 18 months of Tinubu’s administration, largely due to tough economic policies.

“The president’s unending love for foreign travels shows a disconnect from the realities Nigerians face daily,” Akeni said, urging Tinubu to prioritize domestic solutions over international engagements. 

“Tinubu also leaves behind insecurity of historic proportions where 57 Nigerians die everyday from various forms of violent death.

“This amounts to seven deaths more than Ukraine’s war casualties, which loses 50 citizens per day in its full-scale war with Russia, according to research by Mediazona and The Book of Memory Group, corroborated by a similar BBC study.

“The Nigerian casualty figures exclude deaths from daily traffic accidents, Nigeria’s frequent boat mishaps and other civil hazards.

“You will recall that President Tinubu had only sat in office for four months after his swearing in on May 29, 2023 when he flew overseas on his first annual vacation. This was on October 2, 2023.

“This means that under the APC governance manual, four months made up one year for the Nigerian president to go on an annual vacation. This is historic for a post-inaugural president because it doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world.

“Since assumption of office on May 29, 2023, President Tinubu has travelled and virtually “lived” outside Nigeria for nearly 160 days. This is almost half of an entire year in only two years of office.

“Tracing this unproductive trend backwards to Buhari’s days, records show that APC produces dinner and toothpick presidents who eat breakfast in Abuja, have lunch in Paris and belch in London.

“They enjoy costly vacations abroad like children enjoy excursions to amusement parks. From Buhari’s administration to Tinubu’s current rule, that is the only reason why billions of naira they vote every year for the Aso Villa presidential clinic perpetually empty into unknown pockets and the clinic’s medicine shelves do not have drugs for even cramps.

“From late Buhari to Tinubu, APC has continued to produce nomad presidents whose medical and social tourism cost our country billions of Naira in taxpayers money.”

The Labour Party’s interim spokesman said the party will do things differently should Nigerians vote it into power come 2027.

According to him, it is the government’s responsibility to put in place a standard healthcare system that would cater for all citizens.