President Muhammadu Buhari has cancelled his one-day official visit to Imo State earlier fixed for Tuesday, May 20.
President Buhari was expected, in Owerri, the Imo State capital to commission, among other projects, a statue of himself, constructed by the Rochas Okorocha administration in the state.
A team of aides and newsmen had already arrived Owerri for the much-awaited visit, The Cable reports.
A statement, signed by the chief press secretary to the state governor, Sam Onwuemeodo, said that the visit was postponed as the president was yet to return from Saudi Arabia where he performed this year’s holy pilgrimage.
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The statement said: “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.”
Pleaded for understanding of the people of the state, the statement said that a new date for the visit would also be announced in due course.
