{"id":82233,"date":"2026-01-27T16:17:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82233"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:17:05","slug":"presidency-says-tinubu-hale-after-minor-stumble-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/27\/presidency-says-tinubu-hale-after-minor-stumble-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency Says Tinubu Hale After Minor Stumble in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Presidency has dismissed concerns over President Bola Tinubu\u2019s health following a brief stumble during a state visit to Turkey, assuring Nigerians that he remains hale, hearty and fully engaged in official duties.<\/p>\n<p>In a clarification on Tuesday, the Presidency explained that the incident occurred during a welcome reception in Ankara and was caused by a poorly laid blue carpet, not any health-related issue.<\/p>\n<p>It said President Tinubu immediately recovered from the minor stumble and continued with his scheduled engagements without interruption.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Presidency, the President has since resumed official activities and is currently holding bilateral talks with Turkish authorities as part of the visit. He is also expected to jointly address a press conference with his hosts.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency urged the public to disregard unfounded speculations, stressing that the President remains in good health and high spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Presidency has dismissed concerns over President Bola Tinubu\u2019s health following a brief stumble during a state visit to Turkey, assuring Nigerians that he remains hale, hearty and fully engaged in official duties. In a clarification on Tuesday, the Presidency explained that the incident occurred during a welcome reception in Ankara and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82235,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82233\/revisions\/82235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}