Against the backdrop that President Goodluck Jonathan at the dying minute cancelled an alleged scheduled visit to Chibok to meet with the families of the girls, instead traveled to Paris to attend a security meeting, the Presidency reportedly denied any plan for President Goodluck Jonathan to visit Chibok, Borno State.
According to Twitter account of the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati on Friday, the President was not scheduled to visit Chibok as widely reported yesterday.
He described the reports as rumours, wrong and maliciousness to allege that a “non-existent trip has been cancelled.”
He said: “Every trip by the President is usually pre-announced. The Presidency did not at any time announce a trip to Chibok today (Friday). Ignore rumours.”
He explained that the statement issued by my office on Thursday only indicated that the President was scheduled to travel to Paris yesterday.
“It is therefore wrong and malicious to allege that a non-existent trip has been cancelled.” He stated
Earlier reports has it that two officials in the presidency, who the Associated Press confirmed the cancellation, they told the news agency that "there were apparent concerns about security after news of the planned trip was leaked to the media and published on front pages of newspapers on Friday."
A clear situation of mis-information or dis-information at play here, Nigeria....we are supposed to have gotten past this stage.
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