Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has advised Nigerians against
hoping that the remaining 219 Chibok schoolgirls still being detained by
Boko Haram insurgents since April 14 this year will ever return intact.
Obasanjo,
who spoke in an interview with Radio France International monitored in
Abuja, feared that it would take years to rescue the girls, owing to the
failure of the federal government to act swiftly within 48 hours after
the abduction took place.
The former president categorically
stated that anyone who believes that the Chibok girls would be rescued
without scratches “must be daydreaming,” stressing that, “We will never
be able to get those girls together again. And the stories of those
girls will go on for the next 30 years. Some of them will come out when
they are adults or sent back when they are impregnated by their
captors.”
Obasanjo
went on to take pot shot at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader
in the Southwest, Chief Kashamu Buruji, insisting that the chieftain was
a wanted drug baron and maintained that it was shameful for the PDP and
the presidency to be “hobnobbing” with him.
According
to him, “He is somebody who has been indicted in the United States as a
drug baron, and for a political party and the presidency to be
hobnobbing with him leaves much to be desired.”
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