The United States’ Presidential Candidate, Hillary Clinton has been accused of playing an important role in the 2014 abduction of over 200 girls in Chibok, Nigeria.
On Tuesday night in Cleveland, Chris Christie brought forward the huge claim against Hillary Clinton alleging her culpability in the abduction of the girls by Islamist-Jihadist sect, Boko Haram.
Chris Christie noted Hilary’s two-year long brave fight against Boko Haram, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, he however added that the fight which he termed “a reckless action by the candidate who is the self-proclaimed champion of women around the world” led to the abduction of the girls. He further noted that the school girls remain missing till today.
He added:”What was the solution from the Obama/Clinton team? A hashtag campaign! Hillary Clinton, as an apologist for an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Nigeria resulting in the capture of innocent young women, guilty or not guilty?
However, Oby Ezekwesili, Nigerian activist and former World Bank vice president for Africa credited for coining the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign and slogan in 2014 is not pleased with Chris Christie, the New Jersey governor’s position in.
In an emailed statement, Ezekwesili described Christie’s remarks as “a cheap aggrandizement of the tragedy of our abducted 219 schoolgirls still in terrorist captivity, 828 days later.”
She continued “That [Christie] egregiously attributed our #BringBackOurGirls hashtag to the Obamas is proof that he had never even followed nor had any empathetic connection to the tragedy nor bothered to know the facts of the local and global advocacy that it triggered”.
Adding that “If he had, he would have known that hashtag #BringBackOurGirls was and remains the rallying cry of Nigerian citizens.”
“Is it not a shame that in the over two years of our advocacy for them, not once did the voice of Governor Christie echo empathy for the girls until yesterday when he decided to pawn them for political gain?” she questioned.
“I advise him to put himself in the place of the parents of the missing girls especially since he is also a father of two daughters. The least the Governor can do now is to quickly publicly apologize to the girls and their parents and cease dragging them into the United States political arena.”