President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday assured that the Nigerian troops will recapture Gwoza from members of the Boko Haram sect latest on Friday.
The president said once that feat is achieved, it won’t take Nigeria more than one week to wipe out the insurgents from country.
Jonathan spoke while granting audience to a group of international election monitors who paid him a visit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“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 told his guests.
The president however admitted that one of the reasons elections were reschedule was because of the Boko Haram activities in three norther states: Borno, Yobe and Adamawa at that time.
“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.”
The President assured his guests that elections would be conducted on the Saturday across the country and it would be free, fair and credible.
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