PDP raises suspicions about Dapchi abductions saying it may have been an APC stage-managed event

NIGERIA'S opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the federal government to explain the real circumstances surrounding both the abduction and the alleged release of 110 Dapchi schoolgirls this morning.

In the early hours of today, 110 Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC) Dapchi pupils who were abducted from their boarding school by Boko Haram last month, were released. Apparently five of the girls who were kidnapped on February 19 died while in captivity but the remainder of them were driven in nine vehicles to Dapchi this morning where there were received by large crowds.

Rather surprisingly, local people welcomed the Boko Haram terrorists who dropped the girls off and were captured waving to them in numerous video recordings of the event. Wary of this, the PDP alleged that both the abduction and the release of the girls were done in a suspicious manner.

It  also took a swipe at the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the presidency for allegedly stage-managing the abduction for political purposes. Suspicious of the whole saga, the PDP called on the United Nations and the International Criminal Court to declare this evil by the APC federal government a war crime against humanity and immediately commence investigations into the matter.

PDP national chairman Prince Uche Secondus, also demanded the arrest and prosecution of all those involved in the saga. In addition, the PDP's national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, also addressed a press conference on the matter.

Mr Ologbondiyan said: “We consider as wicked, callous and tormenting to use innocent schoolgirls as pawns in an ignoble script that was designed to hoodwink Nigerians and orchestrate a great rescue and security prowess of a conquering general, all to push a 2019 re-election bid, is an unpardonable gamble with human lives. While this failed Dapchi drama remains a poorly crafted tragi-comedy, a scam of no equal dimension, Nigerians are not ready to forgive the APC and the presidency for the torments inflicted on the girls, their parents and the human community worldwide just to score a cheap political point.”

Prince  Secondus added: “The main issue is, how were they kidnapped? The government had set up an investigative committee,  we challenge them to release the report on how they were kidnapped."