Some abducted schoolgirls may never return - Nigerian ex-president


  • World
  • Friday, 13 Jun 2014

Members of the #BringBackOurGirls campaign group protest on a street, after challenging the Nigerian police's ban on their daily protests, in Abuja June 3, 2014. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

ABUJA (Reuters) - Some of the schoolgirls abducted by militant group Boko Haram may never return home, Nigeria's influential former president Olusegun Obasanjo said, in some of the most pessimistic comments yet on their fate from a member of the country's elite.

Obasanjo said President Goodluck Jonathan's administration had taken too long to respond to the April mass abduction. Once Jonathan's mentor and one of his strongest political allies, Obasanjo turned against him last December.

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