President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after honouring the Papal invitation to witness the inauguration of a new Papacy at the Vatican in Rome.
The President who was invited “personally” by the new Bishop of Rome, Pope Leo XIV, met with 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, and former Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, at the Vatican where he told them “I’m the head of the Nigerian delegation”.
Pope Leo XIV succeeds Pope Francis, who passed at the age of eighty-eight (88) on Easter Monday, 21 April, 2025.
America’s Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new Pope by a Conclave of 133 Cardinals right inside the enclosed Sistine Chapel, Vatican on Thursday 8 May, 2025.
A headline by Nigerian Information Platform, ‘Daily Trust’, which claims, the President’s son, Seyi Tinubu, was held back by the Vatican Security as his Father, President Tinubu, moved to meet with Pope Leo XIV, attracted different reactions, including from social media influencer, Reno Omokri.
Omokri reacted to the headline: “Another lie, not for the first or even the tenth time.”
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