The Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said that no female student of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, was abducted by members of Boko Haram, and that the story was invented by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a political ploy to defeat former President Goodluck Jonathan.
He said he viewed with amusement the advocacy by Dr. Oby Ezekwesili-driven Bring Back Our Girls movement, which has been pressing for the recovery of the missing girls, saying: “you can’t get what is not missing.”
Fayose, who spoke in Ado Ekiti at a two-day workshop organized by Women Arise for Change Initiative, said that the rumour of the missing girls was mere political fabrication meant to get Jonathan out of office at all costs.
“The cries over missing girls were just a political strategy. What could Boko Haram have used to carry those girls? However, if truly missing, they should be recovered. One thing I know is that what is not missing you cannot get.”
The girls were kidnapped in April, 2014 by Boko Haram and had since been declared missing by the federal government. [myad]
