The All Progressives Congress (APC) is extremely delighted with the news
of the return of the schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Science
Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State by Boko Haram.
The prompt release of the Dapchi schoolgirls is another solid
demonstration of the political will of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led
APC administration to secure the lives of all Nigerians.
With this prompt release of the Dapchi girls, the APC government has
demonstrated how government should respond to such situations. If the
immediate-past Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration had responded
with the similar alacrity, the Chibok schoolgirls would have been released
or rescued. Instead, the PDP wasted several weeks wallowing in denial and
conspiracy theories such that it was now left for the APC government to
rescue many of the girls and rehabilitate them.
We assure Nigerians that the current administration remains committed to
securing the release of the remaining Chibok schoolgirl still held in
captivity by Boko Haram and ultimately rehabilitate and reunite them with
their families and loved ones.
The Party is confident that reforms that the government has embarked on
would improve the capacity and efficiency of our security agencies to
prevent the kidnap of children by terrorists and diminish their ability to
carry out attacks on soft targets.