‘President didn’t walk out on Chibok parents but he didn’t connect,’ Ezekwesili says

Leader of the Bring Back Our Girls group, Oby Ezekwesili has denied reports that President Muhammadu Buhari walked out on the group after a meeting yesterday, January 14, 2016.

Ezekwesili however said that the president failed to connect emotionally with the mothers of the Chibok girls who were weeping during the meeting.

“You heard all the parents said at the meeting, is it because we are poor? Is it because we live in the forest? Is it because we live in the village? But that has no meaning in any society, there is no basis for discrimination on the basics of social status, political view, religious belief and other primordial device against any citizen,” she said at the group's daily sit out at the Unity Fountain in Abuja after the meeting.

“In the feedback from the President you can see clearly that the President feels that he has given his best in the efforts to rescue our Chibok girls, our President however was not able to emotionally connect to those crying mothers.

“That is an important attribute but we will continue to demand and we will take up the responsibility that the NSA has taken and we will make sure that we don’t stop until our girls are back and alive,” she added.

Members of the group had initially been received by Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan but they insisted on seeing Buhari.

Alhassan attracted outrage after she supposedly made insensitive comments to the distressed parents.