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Makarfi-led PDP Blasted Over Chibok Girls “Swap” Comments

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8 years ago

May 9, 2017

Heavy condemnation has come on the way of the Ahmed Makarfi faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for criticizing the swapping of Chibok girls for Boko Haram suspects.

The Federal Government described the criticism as indecent and inhuman.

According to the government, the reaction showed that the party never wanted the girls freed.

Also yesterday, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres urged Nigerians to embrace the freed schoolgirls.

Besides, the Ali Modu Sheriff-led faction of the PDP hailed the government for securing freedom for the girls by swapping.

Faulting Markarfi in a statement issued in Abuja, Information, Culture and Tourism Minister Lai Mohammed said it stood logic on its head for any individual or organisation to douse on the altar of politics the universal joy that greeted the release of the 82 girls.

He described the number of the released girls as the highest so far since the April 14, 2014 abduction from their dormitory at the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State under the watch of the PDP-led government.

According to him, from the ‘ill-advised statement, it is clear that the PDP, whose incompetence and cluelessness precipitated the Chibok girls’ crisis in the first instance,’ never wanted freedom for the abducted girls.

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