FG: ‘Jonathan’s government played politics with abducted schoolgirls’
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The federal government has accused the Goodluck Jonathan administration of playing politics with the issue of the abducted Chibok girls. The federal government urged former president Jonathan to ‘stop engaging in finger-pointing’ over the issue of the Chibok girls who were abducted during his administration.The minister of information, Lai Mohammed gave the caution in a statement made available to news men on Monday, March 6, 2017. The minister described ex-president Jonathan’s recent comment on the Chibok girls as an ‘unnecessary distraction’ from ongoing efforts to secure the release of the girls who remain in captivity, long after they were abducted. “While former President Jonathan reserves the right to defend his administration, he should not engage in finger-pointing,” the statement said. He further quoted the former president as having said “some people who have obviously been playing politics with the issue of the Chibok girls will stop at nothing to further their interest”. Lai Mohammed went ahead to counter by saying that if anyone ever played politics with the issue of Chibok girls, it was the administration under whose watch the girls were abducted. “After the girls were kidnapped and the Jonathan administration did nothing for all of 15 days or make any determined efforts to rescue them thereafter, our party, the then opposition APC, told the nation several times that the whole Boko Haram crisis was allowed to escalate by the PDP-controlled federal government so they can use it as a political tool ahead of the 2015 elections”, he said. Lai Mohammed further defends the Federal Government by saying that The Boko Haram crisis was readily used by the PDP to rationalise the Jonathan government’s abdication of its constitutional responsibilities, including visits and assistance to areas affected as well as effective response to abductions. ”Two-and-a-half years after that statement, we have been vindicated by the report that claimed President Jonathan rebuffed an attempt by the British government to help rescue the girls. We hope the former President will now refrain from stoking further controversy over the lingering abduction issue and allow the government of the day to focus on its ongoing negotiations to secure the release of the Chibok girls”, the minister said. Meanwhile, ex-president Jonathan has denied reports that his administration refused help from the British government to rescue the abducted Chibok girls. Discover more from NewsBreakers
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