Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has advised Nigerians against hoping that the remaining 219 Chibok schoolgirls still being detained by Boko Haram insurgents since April 14 this year will ever return intact.

Obasanjo, who spoke in an interview with Radio France International monitored in Abuja, feared that it would take years to rescue the girls, owing to the failure of the federal government to act swiftly within 48 hours after the abduction took place.

The former president categorically stated that anyone who believes that the Chibok girls would be rescued without scratches "must be daydreaming," stressing that, "We will never be able to get those girls together again. And the stories of those girls will go on for the next 30 years. Some of them will come out when they are adults or sent back when they are impregnated by their captors."
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Obasanjo went on to take pot shot at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader in the Southwest, Chief Kashamu Buruji, insisting that the chieftain was a wanted drug baron and maintained that it was shameful for the PDP and the presidency to be "hobnobbing" with him.

According to him, "He is somebody who has been indicted in the United States as a drug baron, and for a political party and the presidency to be hobnobbing with him leaves much to be desired."