“‘Abeg’, stop daydreaming about the return of Chibok girls”

After eight months in the den of Boko Haram insurgents, who expects the 219 Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram on April 14 in Borno State to return intact and complete? Hmmm…It would require more than faith and magic for that to happen. 

Speaking on Channels TV's Sunrise Daily on Monday, President Goodluck Jonathan's  Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, said the government had no time limit on when the girls should be expected home alive.

His words: 

“There is no time limit for returning the girls alive. The issue of the Chibok girls is a national tragedy that must be borne with fortitude. Government has not given up on finding and rescuing the girls.

But former president, Olusegun Obasanjo has smashed Okupe's optimism, advising Nigerians to stop daydreaming that the girls would return without scratches. 

Speaking in an interview with Radio France International monitored in Abuja, Obasanjo said that the federal government’s failure to act within 48 hours of the girls’ kidnap makes it almost impossible to rescue those girls now.

According to Obasanjo,

“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. If anybody is thinking of getting those girls intact, he must be daydreaming”

During the interview, Obasanjo also firing a few shot s at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader in the Southwest, Chief Kashamu Buruji, saying:

“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.”