President Jonathan Did Not Travel To South Africa For ANC Centennial, But A "large Number" Of His Team Did

This was the same government that said they were going to reduce overseas trip to the barest minimum.

Before now many Nigerians and a lot of rumours on the Internet, have alleged that president Goodluck Jonathan made the trip to South Africa but SaharaReporters has confirmed that President Goodluck Jonathan did not travel to South Africa for the 100th anniversary of the ANC.

Responding to the situation at home, he has remained in Nigeria cancelling his trip to the ANC centenary.

In his speech to the country on Saturday night, he vowed to undertake "immediate cuts" in foreign trips to "the barest minimum."

Meanwhile his party and government are heavily represented in South Africa. He did not stop his team from going, nor did he limit the size of the delegation, unless half of the entire People's Democratic Party was scheduled to have travelled with him in the first place.

So multitude of political office holders is barest minimum?

Following a lavish demonstration of weight at the ANC dinner on Saturday night, his delegation then swamped Bloemfontein, an entourage "so large," wrote one Nigerian in South Africa, "you would think it was a PDP political rally."