Jonathan Promises To Liberate Gwoza By Friday
President Goodluck Jonathan said that the Nigerian army would recapture Gwoza, Borno state, latest on Friday, tomorrow.
The president made a claim on March 25 as he was granting audience to a group of international election monitors at the presidential villa in Abuja, Punch reports.
Thus, the liberation of the strategic town is expected one day before the presidential election in the country.
“We believe by tomorrow (Thursday) or latest Friday, we will be able to take over Gwoza. If we take over Gwoza it will not take us more than one week to clean up. Now Boko Haram is not in position to come out and disrupt elections.”
Jonathan also commented on the reasons of the elections postponement to his guests:
“They were holding territories, some local governments were completely under their control and invariably there were no government in those places.
“And of course, some states like Gombe and Bauchi were also not free. In fact, it would have been difficult to conduct elections in five states of the federation.
“If we had conducted elections on that February 14, they would have come up to disrupt elections in these five states and that would have made the presidential elections in these five states inconclusive.
“This is because whoever emerged a winner though we are 14 candidates but the PDP and the APC candidates are the two that are well known.
“It would have been difficult because probably the vote difference of any of these candidates, if you aggregate the remaining five states that elections would have been disrupted, it would have been difficult to declare a winner.”
GEJ, however, insisted that the polls would be conducted on the rescheduled dates adding that there would be no reason for inclusive results.
It should be recalled that alerting information has been recently provided about Gwoza.
Earlier this week a Boko Haram escapee told disclosed that Abubakar Shekau (or his impostor), the sect leader, was hiding in Gwoza and presiding over his people from there.
Later another abductee said that the Chibok girls kidnapped last year were being held in the same Borno town.
The president made a claim on March 25 as he was granting audience to a group of international election monitors at the presidential villa in Abuja, Punch reports.
Thus, the liberation of the strategic town is expected one day before the presidential election in the country.
“We believe by tomorrow (Thursday) or latest Friday, we will be able to take over Gwoza. If we take over Gwoza it will not take us more than one week to clean up. Now Boko Haram is not in position to come out and disrupt elections.”
Jonathan also commented on the reasons of the elections postponement to his guests:
“They were holding territories, some local governments were completely under their control and invariably there were no government in those places.
“And of course, some states like Gombe and Bauchi were also not free. In fact, it would have been difficult to conduct elections in five states of the federation.
“If we had conducted elections on that February 14, they would have come up to disrupt elections in these five states and that would have made the presidential elections in these five states inconclusive.
“This is because whoever emerged a winner though we are 14 candidates but the PDP and the APC candidates are the two that are well known.
“It would have been difficult because probably the vote difference of any of these candidates, if you aggregate the remaining five states that elections would have been disrupted, it would have been difficult to declare a winner.”
GEJ, however, insisted that the polls would be conducted on the rescheduled dates adding that there would be no reason for inclusive results.
It should be recalled that alerting information has been recently provided about Gwoza.
Earlier this week a Boko Haram escapee told disclosed that Abubakar Shekau (or his impostor), the sect leader, was hiding in Gwoza and presiding over his people from there.
Later another abductee said that the Chibok girls kidnapped last year were being held in the same Borno town.
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