Presidency Speaks About Meeting With Chibok Parents

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Presidency has reacted to the reports that
Muhammadu Buhari walked out of the
meeting he had with parents of the missing
Chibok girls yesterday, January 14.
President Buhari during the meeting with
parents of missing Chibok girls.
Buhari’s spokesman Shehu Garba took to his
official Twitter account to clarify the
situation.
Bring Back Our Girls campaign leader Oby
Ezekwesili led aupporters of the group and
parents of the kidnapped schoolgirls on a
protest to the presidential villa in Abuja.
President Buhari has met with protesters and
ordered a new investigation into the
kidnapping of 219 girls by the deadly Boko
Haram sect in April 2014 from the town of
Chibok, Borno state.
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However, the journalists were asked to leave
the venue of the meeting when Buhari
entered the hall. The reports also emerged
that the president was visibly angry and
walked the activists out.
Read below some tweets from Buhari’s media
aide concerning the alleged incident:
1. We thank the BBOG_Nigeria for a good
event. But that is not to say that all of
the accounts of the meeting on Twitter
are accurate.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 15,
2016
2. President @MBuhari could not have
stormed out of his meeting with the
#Chibok parents, stakeholders and the
BBOG_Nigeria.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 15,
2016
3. He (President Buhari) was called to
speak at a meeting he did not start. He
did his part and left so that the meeting
would continue.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 15,
2016
4. It is a simple meeting procedure. He
had to leave without being disruptive.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 15,
2016
5. That is what happened. The ministers
did not even escort him. They stayed back
to conclude the meeting.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 15,
2016
6. I thought that the President should be
praised for ending his meeting with a
foreign leader to come,…
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 15,
2016
7. …and for the courtesy & respect he
showed to the parents & the BBOG, which
is undoubtedly Africa’s best known social
action movement.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 15,
2016
8. We asked cameras out for two reasons.
Sensitive security information may be
disclosed.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 15,
2016
9. Two, privacy is not unusual with
leaders around the world when they meet
families in grief.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 15,
2016
10. We didn’t want anyone to get the
sense that the President was exploiting
their images in a photo op. Regards!
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) January 15,
2016