Tinubu had to take a charter a jet to Saudi Arabia to avoid missing the two-day event.
Nigeria's Vice President, Kashim Shettima has been seen in a video arriving in Kenya on a chartered commercial private jet on Monday morning.
Shettima travelled to the East African country for the International Development Association (IDA21) Heads of State Summit in Nairobi, Kenya to represent his principal, President Bola Tinubu who is currently attending a session of the World Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia.
The video seen by Peoples Gazette showed the moment Shettima descended from the commercial plane early Monday as Kenyan officials warmly welcomed him.
The vice-president resorted to flying commercial after his dedicated aircraft Gulfstream G550 class, sent to relieve Tinubu’s faulty Boeing 737 jet, also developed mechanical complications resulting in an oxygen leak that nearly left the president stranded in the Netherlands last Friday.
Tinubu had to take a charter a jet to Saudi Arabia to avoid missing the two-day event.
However, Shettima's Gulfstream plane, which has previously been repaired, is now waiting in Saudi Arabia to fly Tinubu back to Nigeria after the economic conference on April 29.
SaharaReporters on Sunday reported that Tinubu was forced to travel to Saudi Arabia on a charter flight at the weekend for the ongoing World Economic Forum in Riyadh from the Netherlands.
It was reported that Tinubu and some of his aides left Rotterdam on a Falcon 8X 9H-GRC private jet for the summit, which is scheduled for April 28-29.
The rest, including several ministers and other high-ranking administration officials, made the trip on separate support aircraft and commercial airlines.
The aircraft, a Gulfstream G550 class, was originally dedicated to Vice-President Kashim Shettima.
SaharaReporters learnt that it was the aircraft also used by former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
However, the president used it on his foreign trip because his dedicated carrier, the Boeing 737 business jet class operated by the Nigerian Air Force 001, has been under maintenance for several weeks.
On March 25, the plane was taken to a maintenance facility at EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, a commercial administrative region jointly controlled by France, Germany, and Switzerland. As of Saturday night, it had not been returned to Nigeria.