President Bola Tinubu departed from Lagos on Tuesday to attend the inauguration of South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa.

Naija Information gathered that the President travelled in a private jet belonging to his ally, Gilbert Chagoury, a Lebanese businessman.

Tinubu arrived at Waterkloof Air Drive Base, positioned on the outskirts of Pretoria, South Africa’s administrative capital, on Tuesday night.

The South African presidential media workforce launched video and images of Tinubu stepping off a Dassault Falcon 8X plane.

Nonetheless, Naija Information has discovered that the personal jet with the registration 9H-GRC is owned by Chagoury Group, a conglomerate owned by Gilbert Chagoury, who’s a identified enterprise associate of the Nigerian President.

“To be extra exact: the Falcon 8X (9H-GRC) is owned by the Chagoury Group and operated by Hyperion Aviation: 9H-GRC, Hyperion Aviation.

The Federal Authorities ceaselessly leases this Falcon 8X, on account of reliability points of the present PAF. 9H-GRC joined 5N-FGZ and 5N-FGW right this moment on a visit to South Africa for the inauguration of the president,” @avinngblog, an X account identified for aviation information in Nigeria added.

Additional investigation by SaharaReporters into an plane registration database confirmed that the personal jet, together with others owned by the group, is operated by Hyperion Aviation.

The Dassault Falcon 8X was initially operated by Aviation SA earlier than being transferred to Amjet Government.

The plane, first registered below the Chagoury Group, was subsequently operated by Hyperion Aviation, a enterprise jet constitution firm based mostly in Malta.