Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo,
has advised Nigerians against hoping that the remaining 219 Chibok schoolgirls
still being detained by Boko Haram insurgents since April 14 this year will
ever return intact.
Obasanjo, who spoke in an interview
with Radio France International monitored in Abuja, feared that it would take
years to rescue the girls, owing to the failure of the federal government to
act swiftly within 48 hours after the abduction took place.
The former president categorically
stated that anyone who believed that the Chibok girls would be rescued without
scratches “must be daydreaming,” stressing that, “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.”
Obasanjo went on to take pot shot at
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader in the Southwest, Chief Kashamu
Buruji, insisting that the chieftain was a wanted drug baron and maintained
that it was shameful for the PDP and the presidency to be “hobnobbing” with
him.
According to him, “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.”
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