Withheld Dapchi Girl: Buhari Belongs To Some People – OPC Founder

President Muhammadu Buhari’s failure to secure Leah Sharibu’s release “is another heartbreaking proof that PMB belongs to some people.”

This was according to Dr Frederick Faseun, founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), who said this in reaction to the continued detention of Sharibu, the only Christian girl among the 115 schoolgirls recently abducted and released by Boko Haram insurgents from a Dapchi, Yobe State, technical college.

The insurgents had withheld Sharibu because she allegedly refused to denounce Christianity.

Faseun said it was “insensitive an unpatriotic” for the Buhari government to agree to a conflict-ridden agreement when it secured the release of only Muslim Dapchi schoolgirls from the terrorists’ captivity.

The OPC founder said, “Nobody should make a martyr of that small girl. Her ordeal for being a Christian makes many Nigerians wonder if religion is why the government appears to be foot-dragging in negotiating the release of the Chibok girls, many of whom are Christians.

“The Leah episode is an international embarrassment and it is another heartbreaking proof, plus others like the unchecked killings by Fulani herdsmen, that PMB belongs to some people and not to others.”

“There is no other way for these Muslim leaders to convince the world of their disagreement with Boko Haram’s philosophy and action than to call for her (Leah’s) immediate return and their denunciation of this gross violation of Leah’s rights to life, belief, movement, conscience and association, as guaranteed by the Nigerian Constitution, the African Charter and United Nations Conventions.”