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The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has faulted the “private visit” of President Bola Tinubu to Paris, capital city of France.

The president is expected back in the country in February, according to a statement issued by Ajuri Ngelale, his spokesperson.

In a statement on Tuesday, Peter Ameh, CUPP’s national secretary, said the president should realise that the country is confronting a plethora of socio-economic challenges.

Ameh wondered if the private visits would be a repeat of the ones former President Muhammadu Buhari embarked on during his stint as commander-in-chief.

“President Tinubu should realise that Nigeria is beset on all sides by insecurity, galloping inflation, hunger and starvation, unemployment that is running wild, and out of control, etcetera,” he said.

“The value of the naira is speeding southward with our currency exchanging at almost a thousand five hundred naira to the United States Dollar.

“CUPP feels and recommends that the country needs a hands on deck president, and whatever the reason for these private visits can be conveniently handled in Nigeria or in the absence of such a facility being available, provision should be urgently made to have it brought to Nigeria.”

Ameh added that the country needs “the physical presence” of its president to assure them that his job has not been outsourced.