Garba Shehu, spokesman of
President Muhammadu Buhari, says there is a limit to the travel distance of the
small plane his principal is currently using.
Shehu said this while clarifying
his earlier comment that the president had a “technical stopover” in London.
He said the “big” presidential
jet is undergoing repairs and the one in use has limited capacity.
“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,” he said.
“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.”
The president was expected in
Nigeria on Wednesday after rounding off his US trip.
Buhari’s aircraft, left Joint
Base Andrews military airfield in Washington on Tuesday morning.
Femi Adesina, special adviser to
the president on media and publicity, had earlier announced that Buhari would
arrive in Nigeria this evening.
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