Minister of Information, Labaran Maku has accused the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) of hijacking the #BringBackOurGirls protest for political gains.
According to him, 90 percent of the protesters are APC members who are now being used to discredit the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
Maku, who was fielding questions from State House correspondents after the weekly Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, regretted that the insurgents are mainly in the APC-controlled states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.
While calling for collective efforts towards finding the abducted girls, the Minister reminded Nigerians that the abduction of the over 200 Chibok girls was not the making of the Jonathan administration.
Maku, 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? Thus is because 90 percent of all insurgency is in states controlled by that party.
“Ninety percent of those campaigning to bring back Chibok girls are members of that party.
“I think that honestly if we want this country to grow we must ask the relevant questions. The Chibok girls remain our number one priority, we will never sleep, we will not rest until God brings them out.
“But for you to know begin to look at it as if, when people do wrong, we are the fire fighters, the federal government is a fire fighter.
“We did not create this insurgency or the structure that led to them, you know where they came from but you are now blaming the fire fighter for the fire”.
Over 200 girls were abducted from Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State on April 14 and are yet to be rescued.
