By Abdullahi M. Gulloma
Abuja
Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has hijacked the BringBackOurGirls protests in order to discredit the federal government and make political gains.
Maku, who stated this yesterday after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting in Abuja, said 90 per cent of the protesters were from the opposition party.
He said the federal government was spending a lot of money on insecurity, especially in states that were being controlled by the APC, but that members of the same party were the ones leading the BringBackOurGirls protests in order to push the blame on the federal government.
He said: “The entire money we are spending is to maintain security in states controlled by that party. So, why do you come back and start playing politics? We are busy spending money to maintain security in those states, what have they done about it? Because 90 per cent of all insurgency is in states controlled by that party; 90 per cent of those campaigning to bring back Chibok girls are members of that party.”
The minister said government was working very hard to get the girls released and cautioned politicians on blaming government, saying that the insurgency was not created by government.
