13-7-2025
President Bola Tinubu went missing for five days after he attended the BRICS Summit in Brazil and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called on him to come clean and explain his whereabouts.
The ADC said in a statement Sunday, that President Tinubu for good five days was not on seat to attend to Nigeria’s pressing problems and his disdain for accountability has been stretched too far.
“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.
“The ADC also notes with concern that this disdain for accountability around the President’s overseas trip has become a distinct hallmark of this administration.
In January 2024, a so-called “private visit” to France turned into a two-week disappearance. No photos, and no statements from our President.
In April 2024, President Tinubu travelled to the Netherlands and then to Riyadh for the World Economic Forum. The summit ended on April 29th, 2024, but there was not a word from him until May 8th, 2024. Those were nine days of unexplained vacuum.
In August 2024, President Tinubu flew to China via Dubai. After his engagements in Beijing, he vanished from public view on September 5th and mysteriously surfaced in London on September 11th. He was missing for six days—no explanations, no letter transmitted to the National Assembly, just silence.
And in the same August 2024, the President also embarked on yet another “brief work stay” in Paris. He remained incommunicado for three days, then quietly returned, as if the nation did not deserve to know.
Each episode of Mr. President’s mysterious disappearances has sparked all manners of speculations and rumours that are not only unhealthy to the polity, but also endangers Nigeria’s perception in the eyes of the world.”
The statement signed by Bolaji Abdulahi ADC interim national publicity secretary added that President Tinubu has no moral right to ask Nigerians to make sacrifices in face of the economic crisis facing the country.