The Presidency has denied reports that claimed that President
Goodluck Jonathan, will pay a visit to Chibok, Borno state on Friday.
Reuters
published a report on Thursday, that indicated that the president would
be in the town where over 200 school girls were abducted from on April
14.
However, according to a presidency source, “Presidential
spokesman Reuben Abati has issued a statement that the president will be
travelling to France today (Friday). That is the fact. The president is
not going to Chibok. Simple as that.”
Jonathan has been widely criticized, for not visiting Chibok over a
month after the girls were taken away by suspected Boko Haram militants –
a saga that has now attracted world attention, thanks to a social media
campaign, #BringBackOurGirls
“If the president is going to Chibok, it will not be advertised in
the media,” the source added. “He would have left by the time you hear.”
The official said it would be “foolhardy” to expect the president to
tell the world he was on his way to Chibok.
“That will just give
Boko Haram a great opportunity to organise an embarrassment of
international proportions for the president, just to prove a point. You
don’t hear President Obama is going to see American troops in
Afghanistan or Iraq until he has arrived and departed,” the source
explained. No country will put the president in harm’s way, the official
said.
Jonathan is expected to fly to France on Friday for a regional summit on security.
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