.APC Lauds Release, PDP Describes Release As Comedy
By Baron Ike
Book Haram insurgents have released the 110 girls they took away from there school on February 19.
They did on Wednesday, few days after Nigeria’s minister Mansur Dan Ali hinted that the girls would soon be set free.
It was not obvious if there was a deal struck between Nigeria’s federal government and the insurgents, but Dan Ali indicated that the Nigerian Army was closing in on the insurgents.
Presidency confirmed the return of 104 girls out of 110 girls reportedly abducted in Dapchi, Yobe state.
It said they were returned in the early hour of Wednesday back to their school in Dapchi, Yobe state.
However, only one girl is yet to be released by Boko-Haram terrorists due to her refusal to convert to Islam.
Five of the kidnapped girls were reported dead.
Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is extremely delighted with the news of the return of the schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State by Boko Haram.
The party said the “prompt release of the Dapchi schoolgirls is another solid demonstration of the political will of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration to secure the lives of all Nigerians.”
APC spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi said in a statement on Wednesday: “With this prompt release of the Dapchi girls, the APC government has demonstrated how government should respond to such situations. If the immediate-past Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration had responded with the similar alacrity, the Chibok schoolgirls would have been released or rescued. Instead, the PDP wasted several weeks wallowing in denial and conspiracy theories such that it was now left for the APC government to rescue many of the girls and rehabilitate them.
“We assure Nigerians that the current administration remains committed to securing the release of the remaining Chibok schoolgirl still held in captivity by Boko Haram and ultimately rehabilitate and reunite them with their families and loved ones.
“The Party is confident that reforms that the government has embarked on would improve the capacity and efficiency of our security agencies to prevent the kidnap of children by terrorists and diminish their ability to carry out attacks on soft targets.”
However, Nigerians have been reacting to the release.
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani Kayode wrote on his twitter handle: “Happy that the Dapchi girls are home. Saddened that 5 died. The day the truth comes out about what really happened to the Chibok and Dapchi girls and those that were behind these 2 scams, Nigerians will be shocked and they will spit on the graves of Buhari and his collaborators.”
Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP spokesman wrote: “#Dapchi: A poorly crafted tragicomedy lacking intelligence and tact. A scam of no equal dimensions the world over. @OfficialPDPNig had repeatedly warned about conspiratorial plots advanced by @APCNigeria interests to gain heroic attainments.”
