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Oby Ezekwesili, co-coordinator of the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG) campaign movement, says the group has written President Muhammadu Buhari to request a meeting over the missing Chibok schoolgirls.

Ezekwesili said this in Lagos on Thursday, pointing out that the movement has not relented in its quest to ensure that the girls are reunited with their families.

“We have formally written on behalf of the BringBackOurGirls movement in Abuja, nationwide, and all over the world to the president and sought to meet with him,” she told NAN.

”We have written to request for a meeting with the president as we did on several occasions with the previous government. The meeting shall enable us to express our deep anxieties at the failure of the federal government to rescue our 219 Chibok girls.

”We shall also use the meeting to understand and contribute to the strategy for countering terrorism, ensuring post-insurgency recovery and other related issues.

“We now await official confirmation and schedule for the meeting from the president; 276 Chibok schoolgirls abducted, 57 escaped, 219 still missing, zero rescued and we are not giving up on them.”

The movement has been a strong advocate for the return of the female students kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State in the night of April 14, 2014.

Its advocacy has been acknowledged in the international community.