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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a closed-door meeting with parents of two of the over 200 girls who Boko Haram militants abducted from Chibok, Borno state.

Aisha, wife of the president and Dolapo Osinbajo, wife of the vice-president, also attended the meeting.

Addressing state house correspondents after the meeting, the vice president’s wife said the president’s wife had been looking forward to meeting with them.

“Hajia Aisha Buhari had, for many months, wanted to visit Chibok. She also wanted to meet with the mothers,” she said.

“Today, we have had the opportunity for the president and Hajia to show that they are our father and mother. For that, we are glad. Today, we had an opportunity for them to meet face-to-face. We had two of the mothers who still have their daughters missing after a year.

“Hajia, being a mother, met with them, held them and they cried, everybody cried. What only a mother will do is to say wait, I want you to see your father and see what your father will do.

“We were all extremely overwhelmed that at this time when the president is so busy, he had time to meet with the women from Chibok. He spoke to them in English and Hausa. He explained to them how he keeps telling everybody to put themselves in their place.”