President
Goodluck Jonathan has ordered that posters calling for his re-election by using
the hashtag #BringBackGoodluck2015 be torn down, his office said.
The
slogan is an echo of the #BringBackOurGirls social-media campaign that grew in
response to the abduction in April of more than 200 schoolgirls by the Islamist
militant group Boko Haram.
Jonathan
has ordered the “signs and banners around Abuja which he and many Nigerians
find offensive and repugnant be brought down immediately,” presidential
spokesman Reuben Abati said in a statement posted on his website. “President
Jonathan wholly shares the widely expressed view that the signs which were put
up without his knowledge or approval are a highly insensitive parody of the
#BringBackOurGirls hashtag.”
Jonathan,
56, hasn’t said whether he intends
