Tinubu's UK State Visit a Waste - Sowore
Last update: March 18, 2026
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Sowore criticises Tinubu’s foreign visits, calling them diplomatic excursions with little benefit to Nigeria...
Former African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s foreign visits, describing them as diplomatic excursions that yield little benefit to Nigeria.
CBI News reports that Sowore made the remarks on Wednesday during an interview on The Morning Brief a Channels TV programme.
Sowore while commenting on Tinubu’s ongoing state visit to the United Kingdom said “These visits are nothing more than diplomatic excursions. Perhaps the president will also see his doctors; he has not travelled in about a month".
“Beyond the fanfare you are seeing on TV, it’s not bringing anything to Nigeria that Nigeria cannot get or should not have. That’s the point I’m making, and we are just deceiving ourselves all the time by saying this time we travel.”
He further criticised the cost of these trips, arguing that they outweigh any potential benefits.
“The cost of these travels is far more at the end, outweighing whatever we come from the so-called investment they claim is going to happen. If you have it right, investors will come to your country. You don’t need to travel. Nigeria is just burning fuel in the air with our aircraft,” Sowore added.
Highlighting a comparison, Sowore suggested that Nigerian musicians generate more economic value through their foreign tours than the President’s diplomatic visits.
“Sometimes, some of these musicians who go and perform in the UK bring more money into the country than when the president travels to the UK or anywhere,” he said.
