Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that he has link with member of the insurgent group, Boko Haram but would have to secure Presidential approval to broker peace for the release of the Chibok girls.
He however said that some of the girls may never return home even as he opined that some of them may as well have been pregnant by now.
The former President spoke in an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, monitored in Kaduna on Thursday.
“I believe that some of them will never return. We will still be hearing about them many years from now.
“Some will give birth, but if they cannot take care of them in the forest, they may be released,” he told the BBC.
The Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, had in a video clip released on the internet demanded the swapping of the over 200 abducted Chibok girls with some of is commanders in the custody of security operatives across the country.
