Some of the schoolgirls abducted by militant group Boko Haram may never return home, Nigeria's influential former president Olusegun Obasanjo said today.
Obasanjo said President Goodluck Jonathan's administration had taken too long to respond to the April mass abduction. The warning from Obasanjo, who stepped down in 2007 and nurtured Jonathan's own rise to power, will dismay parents who have now waited 60 days for any news of their daughters, taken from a school in the village of Chibok in northeast Nigeria.
+3Grim prediction: The former president of Nigeria has said he does not believe all of the school girls taken by Boko Haram, seen here in a video released by their kidnappers, will return home Once Jonathan's mentor and one of his strongest political allies, Obasanjo turned against him last December.‘I believe that some of them will never return. We will still be hearing about them many years from now,’ Obasanjo told the BBC's Hausa-language radio service on Thursday, in comments echoed in an interview with Nigeria's Premium Times website.
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