Following the unknown fate of the more than 200 female students abducted by the suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok, Borno State, and the general out-cry the ugly development has generated throughout the world, the Imo State government held an emergency Expanded Executive Council meeting Thursday and resolved to postpone the state planned Carnival in honour of the innocent girls. Government also decided that instead of the Carnival road March programmed for this weekend, the council decided that the first Lady, Her Excellency, Nneoma Nkechi Okorocha would lead a road march that would involve female students and all mothers who are teachers in the state school system.
In a release signed by the Senior Special Assistant on Media to the governor, Sam Onwuemeodo noted that "after exhaustively reviewing the mood of the nation and the world at large, at the moment, with regard to the abduction of the innocent girls, the council decided that as a sensitive, responsible, conscious and people oriented government, and in view of the painful mood of the nation and the rest of the world, the state planned CARNIVAL, slated to begin on Friday, May 9, 2014 has been postponed indefinitely".