The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has challenged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to tell Nigerians where he had been for five days since the end of the BRICS Summit in Brazil.

The President returned to Abuja in the early hours of yesterday after traveling to Saint Lucia for a state visit and Brazil for the BRICS Summit on the invitation of the Brazilian President.

However, the ADC Interim National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, in a statement said President Tinubu has “been missing from public view since the end of the summit in Brazil without any official explanation as to his whereabouts.”

The opposition party said, “ADC extends a weary welcome to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for finally returning to the country five days after the end of the 2025 BRICS Summit which held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

“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.

“The president was not on holiday, he was on official duty. We therefore cannot wish those five days away and we demand a clear explanation for them.”