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Ahead of President Bola Tinubu’s 72nd birthday anniversary on Friday, March 29, 2024, the Presidency has urged well-wishers and friends of Nigeria’s first individual not to organise any form of celebratory event or place adverts in the media.In a statement on Sunday, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, attributed the President’s decision to the “challenging times” in the country.
By the announcement, the annual birthday colloquium for the ex-Lagos governor won’t hold. This year will be the fourth in recent times the birthday colloquium will not hold in deference to developments in the country. The President had cancelled thejust as he put off the 2022 edition when terrorists bombed a Kaduna-Abuja train. The ex-Lagos governor had also cancelled the 202o edition to “empathise with those who lost their lives or affected by the COVID-19 pandemic”.
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