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President Goodluck Jonathan has been accused of playing newspaper column diplomacy with the fate of the over 200 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok abducted by Boko Haram militants on April 14.
The accusation comes on the heels of the president’s opinion published by United States-based newspaper, the Washington Post on Friday. Jonathan had explained reason for his silence on efforts to rescue the girls, saying he did not want to compromise investigation. But hours after the publication of the article titled: “Goodluck Jonathan: Nothing is more important than bringing home Nigeria’s missing girls,” another American newspaper, the New York Post, wrote an editorial, accusing Jonathan of playing “newspaper column diplomacy.” As at press time, both the New York Post’s editorial titled “Goodluck Nigeria” and the president’s article have gone viral in the social media.
The New York Post’s editorial read: “When in April the Islamist group Boko Haram abducted nearly 300 girls from their school in northeast Nigeria, it commanded global attention and sparked a #BringBackOurGirls movement.
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Source: The Sun
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