The Presidency has enjoined Nigerians to not yet lose up on the rescue of the abducted Chibok girls.
Senior Special Assistant to the President and Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, however, says that President Muhammadu Buhari never promised to rescue the Chibok girls on the second day of his administration.
Shehu also added that even though the Chibok girls had not yet been found, it wasn’t yet time to give up on them.
He said this on Sunday, in an interview with Punch Newspapers.
Shehu said, “To be fair to President Buhari, did he ever say he will bring back the girls on the second day of his administration? What he has always said is that we don’t even know where the girls are and that we need to go in there and get the intelligence and situation of things and then act.
“Without meaning to endanger what is left of those girls, you know that the Sambisa Forest is being degraded right now.
“In the last few days, you even saw the Chief of Army Staff leading the troops and I am aware that in the last few weeks, very interesting pictures have been shown to the President on the basis of which we will say to Nigerians, don’t lose hope on the Chibok girls.
“I am not saying they have been found or that they have been seen. But it is not yet time for Nigerians to say we have lost them.”
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