President Goodluck Jonathan has assured that the Nigerian Military will recapture Gwoza town in Borno State from Boko Haram insurgents latest on Friday.
Jonathan gave the assurance on Wednesday while granting audience to a group of international election monitors who paid him a visit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to Jonathan, once Gwoza is liberated, it won’t take the nation more than one week to clean up.
“We believe by 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.
Jonathan also spoke on the rescheduling of the elections. He said security operatives advised that elections be rescheduled for security reasons as a number of people thought it was just because of the terror attacks in some parts of the North.
He however admitted that that was a major factor too because the Boko Haram set was in three states; Borno, Yobe and Adamawa at that time.
He said, “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 also assured his guests that elections will hold on Saturday as scheduled and there’ll be no reason for inconclusive results.
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