Jonathan didn’t plan to visit Chibok–Presidency

The Presidency has denied that President Jonathan was scheduled to visit Chibok, Borno State, today. The president was widely reported to have planned to visit Chibok where about 270 schoolgirls were kidnapped over a month ago. Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, said in his Twitter account on Friday that Jonathan was not scheduled to visit Chibok […]

The Presidency has denied that President Jonathan was scheduled to visit Chibok, Borno State, today.

The president was widely reported to have planned to visit Chibok where about 270 schoolgirls were kidnapped over a month ago.

Presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, said in his Twitter account on Friday that Jonathan was not scheduled to visit Chibok as reported.

Abati said was wrong to allege that a “non-existent trip has been cancelled”.

“Every trip by the president is usually pre-announced. The presidency did not at any time announce a trip to Chibok today (Friday). Ignore rumours.

“The statement issued by my office on thursday only indicated that the president was scheduled to travel to Paris yesterday. It is therefore wrong and malicious to allege that a non-existent trip has been cancelled”, he said.

But Abati was silent on what the president’s advance team was doing in Maiduguri, Borno State Capital.

The team left Abuja on Thursday as part of the preparations for the president’s visit to the state.