The Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has explained his previous statement that Muhammadu Buhari had a “technical stopover” in London.
Shehu had revealed that technical stopover hindered Buhari from arriving Nigeria on Wednesday after leaving Washington on Tuesday morning.
The Peoples Docractic Party (PDP) questioned the U.K. stop over, urging the government to stop deceiving Nigerians and reveal the truth.
Reacting, Garba Shehu said the big presidential jet is undergoing repairs and there was a limit to the travel distance of the small plane his principal was currently using.
He said: “The big jet is under repairs. It has been taken for major repairs. So the president is using a small plane and there is a limit to the distance the small plane can cover.
“So the technical stopover I talked about is that the journey from US to Abuja is broken into two. Technical stopover is that the plane stops at a point, refuel, do some checks and then proceed on the journey.
“It is a routine thing.
The plane can do Abuja-Washington, that’s about 12 hours and the maximum the plane can fly is 12 hours, 40 minutes.
“But you don’t need to push it to the edge. This is very normal. There is nothing unusual about it. In any case, they are already on their way back home.”
