African Democratic Congress, on Sunday, challenged President Bola Tinubu to explain to Nigerians his whereabouts after the BRICS summit in Brazil.
Recall that Tinubu departed Nigeria on a two-nation visit to St. Lucia and Brazil on June 28, 2025.
The President, from St. Lucia, reportedly headed for the 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janiero in Brazil.
The Presidency said in a statement that the BRICS summit in Brazil held between July 6 and 7th.
But after the summit ended, Tinubu’s whereabouts became unknown until the early hours of Sunday when he returned to Nigeria.
Also, the Presidency failed to offer any explanation to Nigerians on Tinubu whereabouts for five days.
ADC in its reaction to the development on Sunday, in a statement by its spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, charged Tinubu to tell Nigerians his whereabouts during the five days of his alleged disappearance.
According to Abdullahi, the ADC is extending a “weary welcome” to Tinubu for finally returning to the country five days after the end of the 2025 BRICS Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The statement read, “Since the summit ended on Monday, July 7th, all the other world leaders who were in attendance returned home, briefed their citizens, and got back to work. But our President?
“He only reappeared in Abuja in the early hours of Sunday, July 13—without a word, without a briefing, or any explanation as to why his return to the country had been delayed.
“A whole five days is significant in the life of a country, especially a country like ours battling with several existential challenges of insecurity and a tottering economy that has made life increasingly difficult for the majority of Nigerians.”
ADC stressed that since Tinubu was not on holidays during his trip, he owed Nigerians a duty to explain his whereabouts for those days he ‘disappeared.’
