Nigeria’s former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has categorically said that nobody can rescue the missing Chibok girls, Leadership reports.
The one time military ruler, who made this startling revelation while responding to questions during a programme tagged: ‘7th Roundtable with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’ focusing on the theme: ‘Reflections Of An Elder Statesman: An Evening With OBJ’ organised by the Staff Club of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, noted that promises to recover the girls could not be fulfilled considering the length of time they have been away with the dreaded Boko Haram sect.
He said: “Seventy-two hours after the Chibok girls were adopted was too late for their rescue, talk less of getting to two years by April this year. So if any leader is promising to bring back Chibok girls now, he is lying.”
While attributing the loss of the young girls to the nonchalant attitude of former president, Goodluck Jonathan, Obasanjo stated that anybody who has promised to bring back the missing Chibok girls almost two years after their abduction, was not sincere.
Stating that majority of the girls would have died or some others married off, the Owu high chief stressed that sexual violence and human trafficking would have affected others.
Obasanjo further urged budding politicians to disregard political godfathers but work hard to gain recognition and not get their hands dirty and their feet wet before major opportunities come their ways in politics.
He said: “You have to get your hands dirty and your feet wet in politics before you can make it. So, I admonish you to work hard in order to gain ground and not rely on godfathers because I never had any” while also commending the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari.
On the lingering discord between him and Nobel Laurete, Professor Wole Soyinka, the ex-president said Soyinka “Is no man to be trusted. I will trust Wole Soyinka as an ‘aparo hunter’ rather than trusting him as a political analyst. I have no issue with him.”
EdemAya, a community so rich in mineral resources, and one of the five clans that make up the present day Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria is hosting the world on the 29 th of March 2013. As we gathered from the head of the organizing group, Miss Precious Dominic Akpan, the event is scheduled to take place at the Cooperative Hall, Ikot Ubo Akama, Edemaya in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State. Three beauties are to emerge from the event which promises to be the first ever organized pageant. The Eligibility Form which are currently on sale for a token of N 2,000 will qualify the contestants to struggle for Miss EdemAya, Miss Democracy of EdemAya and Miss Culture & Tourism of EdemAya. The screening and training of the contestants commences on 25 th through 28 th of March 2013. We have been reliably informed that the event will parade ‘who is who’ in the music industry in Akwa Ibom State and a popular reggae artist from Delta State. Imagine the sque
Comments
Post a Comment