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The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday described the order by President Goodluck Jonathan for the removal of the #BringBackJonathan campaign bill boards as belated.

The party however described the order as a good first step but that it fell short of what Nigerians expected from the President.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this in a statement he issued via an e-mail from London.

The party described the #BringBackJonathan as a mockery of the #BringBackOurGirls hash tag that had helped to call global attention to the fate of the over 200 girls who were abducted by Boko Haram almost five months ago and remain in captivity.

According to the statement, the President made a mockery of his administration and his country by waiting for international condemnation of the shameless and brazen usurpation of the #BringBackOurGirls hash tag before issuing the directive for it to stop.

The statement partly read, Had the US newspaper, Washington Post, not written a stinging editorial skewing the Jonathan administration for appropriating the BringBackOurGirls hash tag for his re-election, the administration would have continued its brazenness without regards to the feelings of the parents of the girls or indeed the Nigerian people.

Again, the administration has waited for a global opprobrium before doing what is right.

The party noted that it took an international media campaign before the Jonathan administration acknowledged, after all of 19 days that the Chibok girls were missing in the first instance.

It also recalled that the President only agreed to meet with parents of the abducted girls after the intervention of the 17-year-old Yousafzai Malala.

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