Chibok Girls’ Parents Shun Meeting With Jonathan

The meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and parents of the abducted Chibok secondary school girls at the instance of the Pakistani Girl-Child Education Campaigner, Malala Yousafzai could not hold at the Presidential Villa, Abuja Tuesday.

While the President was waiting for the parents to turn up at the Aso Villa for the meeting by 4.p.m, information got to him that the parents would not attend the meeting as they had left Abuja in the morning for Chibok, Borno State.

Briefing State House correspondents Tuesday, the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe said that the government was forced to cancel the meeting since the parents had already left Abuja.

According to him, the President has authorized a fresh letter of invitation to be written to the parents for another meeting to be scheduled for next week.

He pointed out that the rescue of the Chibok girls is being politicized by the opposition towards the 2015 general elections.

He said that the opposition have seen that President Jonathan is unstoppable towards 2015 election and they want to whip up sentiment in order to prevent him from offering himself for the election.

July 15, 2014