Ex President Goodluck Jonathan Denies Rejecting Offer To Rescue Chibok Girls

News going round reported that the administration of  former president Goodluck Jonathan  rejected assistance from the British forces to rescue the over 200 girls who were abducted from their school in Chibok,
Borno state by the Boko Haram terrorist group, on 14 April 2014.

Goodluck Jonathan in a statement by Okechukwu Eze, his media Adviser said such claims were untrue and bias.

"In the course of the mission, the international team, including members from Nigeria's neighbours Chad, Niger and Cameroon met regularly with our own operatives to plan and conduct their operations.

" In fact,  the Jonathan administration was so genuinely supportive that the foreign powers involved were granted permission to overfly our airspace while conducting the search and rescue mission.
He also said that personal letters were written by the president to the then president of  United States, Barack Obama, The former prime minister  UK ,  Mr David Cameron, President of France, Mr Francois Hollande  including personal contact to the government of China and Israel seeking assistance to the rescue of Chibok girls.

"We are however not surprised that this kind of  concocted story is coming out at this point in time as it appears that some people who have obviously been playing politics with the issue of the Chibok girls will stop at nothing to further their interest.

He asked the media to always investigate and confirmed their reports before publishing.