President
Goodluck Jonathan's visit to Adamawa State for the Peoples Democratic Party’s
Unity Rally scheduled for next week Tuesday has been shelved owing to what
sources within the party described as the “mood of the country.”
The
lingering abduction saga in Borno State in which over 200 schoolgirls were
kidnapped by suspected members of the terrorists Boko Haram sect was said to
have greatly influenced the decision to shelve the Adamawa PDP Unity Rally.
14 of the
students were able to escape when one of the trucks in which they were being
carted away broke down; while 16 others had earlier escaped during the night of
the attack in the school. 13 others have also regained their freedom.
Calls made
last night to the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, and
two presidetial aides – Rueben Abati and Doyin Okupe – to get official
statement on the aborted Unity Rally were not fruitful. Sources said Metuh had
travelled out of the country due to the postponement of the rally.
“The
President does not want to be seen acting as insensitive to the plight of the
Chibok schoolgirls. We can’t afford a repeat of what happened in Kano after the
Abuja blast. That was why the trip was shelved,” the source said.
However,
another source in Adamawa State said the rally was shelved because the party
did not want “some disgruntled elements to use the President's visit to launch
a terrorist attack aimed at dragging the name of the president into the mud and
justifying Governor Murtala Nyako's earlier attacks on the President.”
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We want those girls to Βε̲̣̣̣̥ released ! We don't need sympathy or pitty from the presidency we need ACTION for once ! I mean ACTION !!!!!! Tufiakwa
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