LAGOS, March 22 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government Thursday accused the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) of plumbing the depths of infamy for saying the adoption and release of the Dapchi schoolgirls were stage-managed.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said in statement sent to Xinhua that such remarks portray the PDP as an inhuman, insensitive, unpatriotic and unworthy party.
He said since the release of the Dapchi girls were negotiated by friendly countries and reputable international organizations, it would have taken a conspiracy of global proportion to have stage-managed the adoption and release of the girls.
Mohammed said the reaction of the PDP amounts to an expression of sour grapes, especially because the party failed woefully - when it was in power - to quickly resolve a similar abduction of schoolgirls.
The minister said it is unfortunate that the PDP that failed woefully as a ruling party has also failed grievously as an opposition party, going by its insensitive and crude response to the release of the Dapchi schoolgirls - a development that calls for non-partisan celebration.
The majority of the schoolgirls were released by Boko Haram on Wednesday after one month in captivity. The 104 schoolgirls out of 110 abducted were airlifted to the Nigerian capital city of Abuja through a military transport plane.
Dapchi, where the kidnapping took place a month ago, is located 100 kilometers from Damaturu, the capital of the northern state of Yobe.
Boko Haram is a Jihadist militant organization based in northeastern Nigeria. The United Nations believes Boko Haram has killed more than 20,000 innocent people since 2009 through terror attacks.
