In a just concluded interview on Africa Independent Television (AIT), President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that the abducted chibok girl are alive.
President Goodluck Jonathan said that the Boko Haram insurgents have not killed the over 200 abducted schoolgirls of Government Secondary School Chibok, Borno State.
Featuring on an AIT programme tagged Kakaaki , the president said:
“The good story is that they’ve not been killed”.
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He continued:“They are still alive because when terrorists kill they display. But we can’t just move in with artilleries and clear the place because they may use them as shields, so we are working with the global best practices”.
On the Chibok girls: The good story is that they’ve not been killed – President Jonathan #Kakaaki.
— AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
On the Chibok girls: They are still alive because when terrorists kill they display – President Jonathan #Kakaaki. — AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
On the Chibok girls: We can’t just move in with artilleries and clear the place – President Jonathan #Kakaaki.
— AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
On the Chibok girls: Because they may use them as shields so we are working with the global best practices – President Jonathan #Kakaaki. — AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
The president also assured that Adamawa and Yobe States would be completely liberated from the terrorist group before next week.
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He, however, admitted that his government initially underestimated the capacity of the Boko Haram sect.
“At the beginning, we didn’t really estimate the capacity of Boko Haram”,he said.
On insurgency: At the beginning, we did not really estimate the capacity of Boko Haram – President Jonathan #Kakaaki.
— AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
Jonathan also said that Nigeria had got between 60 and 65 percent of what was needed to prosecute the war against terrorism. The president also disclosed that his administration would completely privatise the nation’s refineries to ensure efficiency in the oil sector. While assuring of his government’s commitment to resolving the current fuel scarcity, he said the country had to start refining her crude.
Speaking on the current fuel scarcity: Till we start refining crude oil, we can’t get out of these issues – President Jonathan #Kakaaki. — AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
He also dismissed the reports that the recent reduction of fuel pump price from N97 to N87 was politically motivated, saying it was necessitated by the decline in the global oil price.
On fuel price reduction: It is not politically motivated, people play politics with everything in Nigeria – President Jonathan #Kakaaki.
— AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
On fuel price reduction: Pump prices are not constant – President Jonathan #Kakaaki. — AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
He said Nigeria would stabilise in so many sectors in the next four years if he is re-elected.
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President Jonathan also expressed his confidence about victory in the upcoming 2015 presidential election saying PDP still has an edge over every other party and he’s not worried about the outcome of the election.
“PDP still has an edge over every other party, I am not worried about the outcome”.
PDP still has an edge over every other party, I am not worried about the outcome – President Jonathan #Kakaaki.
— AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
He continued:“PDP still has better chances of winning a national election.
PDP still has better chances of willing a national election – President Jonathan #Kakaaki. — AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
President Jonathan also indicated that his party, The Peoples Democratic Party is still the dominant party declaring that the opposition party would have fallen like a pack of cards if it didn’t have the elements of PDP in it.
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He said:“PDP is still the dominant party, there’s no polling unit where you don’t have PDP members”.
“If you remove the PDP elements in the opposition, it would just collapse like a pack of cards”.
If you remove the PDP elements in the opposition, it would just collapse like a pack of cards – President Jonathan #Kakaaki.
— AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
Globally a sitting president wins with less vote than during his first attempt – President Jonathan #Kakaaki. — AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
If I am called for a debate even today, i’d be there. I am a public servant – President Jonathan #Kakaaki.
— AIT (@AIT_Online) March 5, 2015
On the plot to sack Jega, President Jonathan said: “I’ve not discussed with anybody on earth or even in my dream whether Jega will stay or not and I advise politicians not to discuss things based on unsubstantiated rumours”
On Jega: I’ve not discussed with anybody on earth or even in my dream whether Jega will stay or not – President Jonathan #Kakaaki. — AIT (@A
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