The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the comments
made by President Goodluck Jonathan that the Chibok girls are still
alive because the Boko Haram terrorist group would have displayed their
bodies if they had been killed, as callous, morbid and insensitive.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday through its National
Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party ?said? it finds the comment
very offensive to human sensibilities, rather than providing hope and
succour for the traumatised parents of the girls.
The APC said a key role of Presidents everywhere in times of
tribulations and tragedies is to offer hope and be the
Consoler-in-Chief, not to make statements that will deepen the suffering
and sorrow of victims.
APC said one would have expected a President to speak on the basis of
actionable intelligence, not some twisted, melancholic and offensive
logic. The party declared that the statement played on the fears of the
parents of the girls and all Nigerians concerning the fate of the girls,
who have now been held in captivity for over 300 days, with an impotent
government unable to rescue them.
The party said that what the parents of the girls as well as all
concerned people around the world want to know is what the Jonathan
administration is doing to bring the girls home as soon as possible, not
a depressing statement about their bodies being displayed in a video by
Shekau if they had been killed
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