All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Organisation has accused the Nigerian minister of transport, Senator Idris Umar of dishing out lies to Nigerians by his claiming that a high speed Abuja-Lagos rail service will commence running in three years time. In a statement today, the Director of media and publicity of the Presidential Campaign Organisation, Garba Shehu said that though the envisaged Lagos-Abuja line as proposed by the Minister of Transport is most desirable, and would provide an alternative means of travel between the federal capital city and Lagos, but that it is the height of irresponsibility for the minister, a senior member of President goodluck Jonathan’s government “to tell such outlandish lies and give false hope for cheap political points.” Garba Shehu said that a PPP agreement to build and operate a rail line would usually take at least two years to negotiate and bring to financial closure, but that the Jonathan government has not even started negotiations with anybody yet on the project. “Before they can start construction, they will need to secure the right of way and pay land compensation along that corridor. This could take years to accomplish. “Then they will have to construct the line. But a look at the government’s record only confirms that this is nothing but a pipe dream. Just 186km Abuja to Kaduna, an ordinary standard gauge line has taken six years to construct and it is not even finished yet regardless of their false claims of completion. “Ajaokuta to Warri has taken the government nearly 30 years. Just the last 27km has taken this government six years and it is not finished yet. “Rehabilitation of existing rail lines which they promised would take 10 months took them four years and they are still not finished yet. “Is it then 600km of electrified rail tracks that they can build in three years? “Then they have to order the rolling stock and operations equipment. These are not off the shelf items. They will need to be manufactured over say another two years. “A high speed rail line means electric trains, so they will need a dedicated IPP with transmission and distribution. When will that come together? What about the gas supply and infrastructure or they will import more expensive diesel? “So how are they going to build a 600km electrified high speed line and put it into operation in just three years? “It is either the Minister does not know what he is talking about or he is deceiving Nigerians. He even had the cheek to say, “It is not a question of story” except it is. It is a hoax and Nigerians need to be worried about a lying government that is incompetent and dishonest. “The government should stop misleading the people. The people deserve a more responsible government.” [myad]
26 year-old set of twin sisters Owami and Olwethu Mzazi from Vosloorus, South Africa have married to the same man, 51 year old Mzukiseni Mzazi. The twin sisters told Journalists that the two of them have always been together doing the same thing, and that they married to the same man as they have shared everything else together since they were born “We have always done everything together. We share everything. That is how our grandmother raised us. So when we decided to marry, we said any man that wants to marry one, will marry the other” Owami said. [myad]
Nigeria’s Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, has described the Interim National Government being contemplated by some Nigerians as a way out of the unfolding 2015 election crisis as unconstitutional and alien to Nigeria’s constitution.
In a statement today, Bello Adoke said: “While I recognize and appreciate the inalienable right of Nigerians to freely express themselves and proffer solutions to perceived national challenges, I am deeply concerned that some undiscerning Nigerians are being unwittingly led to believe that a certain prescription, which is totally alien to the Constitution, can be adopted as viable solution to our national challenges.
“It has therefore become necessary to correct this misconception and refocus the citizenry on the path of constitutionalism and democratic tenets consistent with our quest for democratic consolidation in Nigeria. For avoidance of doubt, it is pertinent to state that the framers of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 did not envisage the constitution of Interim National Government to superintend over the affairs of Government. It is therefore not surprising to observe that no provision for Interim National Government was made in the Constitution.
“The contraption called “Interim National Government” is therefore alien to Nigeria’s constitutional framework and the arrangement should not be promoted by well–meaning Nigerians under any guise or circumstance. Nigerians are therefore enjoined to continue to rely on the Constitution, which contains adequate provisions on how the democratic process can be activated to elect their leaders from time to time.
A Catering crew leader, Mark Doughty, has been sacked by his employers, the East Coast Trains for explaining to passengers that staff shortage and broken boiler led to the provision of sub-standard food for breakfast. The Train was heading from Edinburgh to London in the early hours of today.
Reports said that the East Coast management accused Mr. Doughty, an employee for nearly 14 years, of bringing the company into disrepute even as the passenger who first complained about the poor service was horrified to learn of the sacking.
This is even also as the entire staff of the company are threatening to embark on strike in protest against the sack, insisting that he st be re-instated to his duty.
David Beaumont, a regular East Coast traveller, praised the train staff for the way they handled protesting passengers, insisting that the ones who were damaging the company’s reputation were those responsible for the problems – and those who fired Mr. Doughty.
Members of the RMT union are being balloted for industrial action to demand his reinstatement. The move comes as a similar ballot is under way in support of a catering worker sacked by CrossCountry for not selling enough tea and coffee from his trolley.
Mr. Doughty, 39, from Gilmerton, said it was known in advance that the 5.48am service on September 29 from Waverley to King’s Cross would be one member of staff short because of a mix-up over holidays, but then the chef phoned in sick, reducing the catering crew to just four.
To add to his problems, he discovered from an e-mail the train had a broken boiler. The lack of hot water for washing meant the crew could not serve cooked breakfasts but had to hand out warmed-up paninis with bacon or scrambled egg and roast tomatoes.
Doughty said: “The passengers were not happy. The passenger who complained said the bacon panini was disgraceful – to put it politely. It tasted and looked disgusting.
“They were annoyed because they were not getting what they were paying for. Some took it out on the staff. One member of staff was in tears as a result.
“I explained it would not have made any difference if the chef had turned up because the broken boiler meant we could not serve them the food they would normally get.”
Doughty said staff shortages were frequent and East Coast had been aware of the broken boiler the week before.
The company told Doughty he had “behaved in an inappropriate and unprofessional manner by engaging in a conversation with customers which undermined the reputation of East Coast and the East Coast management team”.
In an e-mail offering his support, Beaumont said: “I find it hard to believe a member of staff can simply be dismissed for telling the truth to insistent passengers like myself in such circumstances.
“The target of my complaint was the people responsible for the chaos, not the guy placed in the awkward position of breaking it to a train load of annoyed passengers, a job that he did incredibly well. I am a regular user and recently there has been constant problems with the provision of proper First Class food on this route.”
Physical combats took over the election of new executive officers to run the affairs of the Nigeria Labour Congress today. Election of officers is the climax of the 11th National Delegates Conference of the NLC which has been going on since Tuesday at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the venue of the event was thrown into confusion today as emotion rose. It was reported that delegates ran for dear lives as aggrieved contestants and their supports suddenly became violent.
They were said to have hijacked and destroyed ballot boxes even while voting was still underway.
It is not clear yet how the event, which had been peaceful since it began suddenly descended into crisis, but the election for the President of the Union had created tension among delegates and split them along partisan lines.
After the disruption, the police took over the venue and delegates were sent away, ostensibly to protect the facility from being vandalised.
Labour leaders have now reconvened at the NLC headquarters in the Central Business District of Abuja for a meeting, scheduled for 1 p.m., aimed at resolving the logjam.
Three candidates had put themselves forward to be elected as President Waheed Omar’s successor.
They are the General Secretary of the National Union of Electricity Employees, Joe Ajaero; the National President of the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Igwe Achese; and National President of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria Ayuba Wabba.
For the three deputy president positions, the Non Academic Staff Union is putting forward its General Secretary, Peter Adeyemi, while the General Secretary, National Union of Textiles, Issa Aremu, is contesting unopposed, along with the National President, Nigeria Civil Service Union, Kiri Mohammed. [myad]
A Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana has made it clear that the March 28 election would not be about people those who do not have shoes, neither would it be about religion and ethnicity.
Falana who spoke at an event sponsored by the United States Consulate in Lagos to mark the African-American History Month accused religious leaders for endorsing President Jonathan.
“This election is not about religion. It is not about ethnicity. It is not about not having shoes. This election should also be about others who have not acquired shoes.”
Falana said that some undesirable elements through their actions and statements are trying to bring Nigeria back to the dark ages that followed the June 12 election.
He insisted that the election must hold and whoever wins must be allowed to govern the country.
Meanwhile, the Pro-National Conference Organisation (PRONACO) has tasked leaders of conscience in the country to immediately rise above political partisanship and give a more profound direction to the country.
The group in its periodic state of the nation intervention said it was not a surprise that the country’s democracy is currently grinding to a halt with desperate and panicky acts of the political class all over the nation.
Speaking through its spokesperson, Olawale Okunniyi, the group said by the framework of the subsisting 1999 Constitution and its attendant amendments, it would be impossible for any government in Nigeria to meet the democratic expectation of the Nigerian people.
“Hence the economic failures of successive governments and the present electoral ‘war’ in the country as the current civil rule from its outset in 1999 has been designed constitutionally to flop,” PRONACO said.
The group, however, lamented the inability of the political class to correct the inherent anomalies in the constitutional structure of the current democracy which it said sustained the explosive politics breeding the current electoral tension in the land.
“Politically, Nigeria is currently sitting on a keg of gunpowder, and may have just postponed the doomsday with the recent extension of the forthcoming elections by six weeks. The fact is that the constitutional structure of Nigeria is deeply self-contradictory to democratic survival.
“Nigeria’s governance and electoral structure is endemically warped and lopsided as it has not been designed by the military to sustain democracy but to blackmail and compromise it for the self-serving agenda of the existing military,” PRONACO asserted.
It also wondered why the political class, for what it called narrow gains, has made it so difficult for the country to correct its dangerous polity with all the humongous economic crisis and horrendous bloodletting and killings witnessed under the current ‘wrongheaded’ democratic dispensation.
“The ruling class may have to take responsibility for the imminent failure of civil rule in the country; now that it seems almost likely that the prediction of the United States in 2005 about Nigeria’s disintegration in 2015 now seems most likely to come to pass.
“In spite of all the warnings and great interventions of leaders of conscience in movements like PRONACO, Project Nigeria and Patriots, the self-serving ruling class have chosen to be deaf to the ominous signs ahead.”
It warned that disturbing developments in recent times are clear signals that democracy is about to be truncated in Nigeria as was done on 12 June 12, 1993, when the presidential election won by MKO Abiola was annuled by military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida.
Abiola, who ran on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), defeated Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention (NRC), but Babangida annulled the election, leading to a crisis that ended with Sani Abacha toppling the Interim Government headed by Ernest Shonekan on November 17, 1993. [myad]
Nigeria military authorities, accused recently of getting involved in politics, especially with politics of General Buhari’s certificate, have now pleaded that they would stay clear of democracy and concentrate on their primary roles.
The Defence Headquarters affirmed that the military would not subvert the democratic process but to discharge its responsibility of supporting democracy as guaranteed in the Constitution.
In a statement, the Director of the Defence Information, Major General Chris Olukolade said that the Chief of Defence Staff and the Service Chiefs, being products and beneficiaries of the nation’s democratic process would continue to cherish the nation’s democracy.
“They will therefore not engage in, condone or encourage any act that has capacity to undermine or subvert any aspect of the democratic processes,” he pledged.
Olukolade said Nigerians and friends of the country should be reassured that the Nigerian Armed Forces believes strongly in the prospects of the country under a democratic rule and would continue to discharge its responsibility to support our democracy as constitutionally guaranteed.
He said the clarification had become necessary having noted the palpable tension being generated in certain quarters with regards to the role of the Nigerian military in the ongoing political activities and recent developments especially in relation to the electioneering programmes in the country.
“Accordingly, it has become necessary to reassure all citizens that the Armed Forces of Nigeria remains committed to its duty in working to ensure the sustenance of peace, law, order and stability in the country before, during and after the forthcoming elections.
“It is also important to reassure Nigerians that the military will while working with all security agencies and stakeholders in the process, remain professional, apolitical and non-partisan in all operations or activities related to this crucial exercise.
“The Armed Forces of Nigeria is quite conscious of the fact that apart from its primary constitutional role of defending the country from external aggression and internal insurrection, it also has the responsibility of providing support in aid of civil authority such as the need to provide complementary security arrangement to protect our electoral process.
“It is on record that the military has successfully lived up to its responsibility while discharging this duty during previous elections without equivocation,” he stated.
Olukolade said all military personnel had been reminded and warned to remain ever conscious of their service oath and solemn commitment to protect the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria even while remaining loyal to constituted authorities in the country.
“No excuse will be acceptable for any act of commission or omission that tends to compromise the law or the electoral process as well as decent conduct or judgment on the part of any service personnel while discharging duties related to elections in any part of the country,” he stated.
He thanked Nigerians for remaining calm and understanding the peculiarity of the security challenges being managed by the Armed Forces at this auspicious period in the nation’s history.
“The military is unequivocally assuring all citizens that it recognises the fact that the nation’s larger interest and her security are sacrosanct and beyond any political expediency or ulterior consideration,” he stated.
Olukolade then advised Nigerians to always endeavour to insulate the military from partisan politics and retain their confidence in its neutrality and sense of patriotism at this critical point.
Meanwhile, a detachment of soldiers from the 34 Artillery Brigade Obinze which stormed Government House, Owerri, on Tuesday and barricaded it with amoured vehicles had since vacated the place.
It was learnt that security had been beefed up within the seat of power with visitors thoroughly checked before being allowed in.
At the secretariat of APC which situates adjacent the imposing Imo State University Roundabout, there was heavy presence of security men with Hilux patrol vehicles stationed at the main entrance. [myad]
Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has advised politicians to always respect the letter and spirit of Peace Accord which they entered into for the purpose of ensuring a violent-free electioneering process. Dr. Uduaghan, gave the advise today when candidates for different elective positions of political parties in Delta State signed a peace accord in Asaba, the state capital, adding that peace accords should not be for formalities but should be honoured in the interest of democracy. The peace accord was packaged by the Delta State Police Command to ensure peace before, during and after the general elections. “If all of us present in this hall decide that these elections should be violence-free, they will be violence-free. We are signing a document today for violence-free elections, it should not just be ceremonial, we must act with the document,” the Governor said and urged the Police and other security agencies in the state to ensure full compliance with the signed agreement. He commending politicians in the state for the matured way they have conducted themselves so far and stressed the importance of the conduct of politicians during and after the elections. He commended the Police for making it possible for candidates for elective positions and their political parties to sign the violence-free elections accord observing, “this event is very key to the success of the 2015 general elections.” “We need peaceful elections, no position is worth dying for, eight years is very short, four years is even shorter and you are in the field again, it is not necessary to go to the extent of engaging in violence,” he added. The Governor described the shift in dates of the elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as laudable, saying, “some people are not happy but a lot of people are happy.” He urged spiritual leaders, journalists, retired military men, among others to engage in actions which would engender peaceful electioneering process. The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5, Mr Musa Daura, said it was important for peaceful elections to be achieved, emphasising that “we must all be in the vanguard for a credible and acceptable electoral process. “We have resolved to provide an electoral environment free of intimidation and politicians should play the game by the rules bearing in mind that politicians are sportsmen. We should shun criminal and electoral violence before, during and after the elections.” Speaking on peace, the Bishop of Asaba Diocese of the Anglican Communion, Rt. Rev. Justus Mogekwu urged politicians to imbibe the virtue of humility and avoid acts of desperation in their quest to achieving their political ambitions. The Resident Electoral Commissioner of the INEC in the state, Elder Aniedi Ikoiwak said despite the shift in dates for the elections, “we will deliver a credible election not only in Delta but Nigeria.” The Commissioner of Police in the state, Alkali Baba Usman in an address, said, they must not only agree but equally realize the need to be more democratic in the conduct of political activities within the ambit of the law with a view to ensuring peace, understanding and respect for one another. “The Commands posture is that of zero tolerance to political violence under whatever guise, the Command is committed and poised to provide violence -free environment for all peace loving Nigerians/foreign nationalities resident in Delta State before during and after the general elections. “To this end, the Command has put in place special investigation teams to investigate and prosecute all infractions on the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) in conjunction with the INEC and of course all extant laws in force”. “Parents and guardians alike should warn their children/wards against being used as a veritable instrument to create confusion in the state as the full wrath of the law will be made to bear on such errant individuals or group of persons along with their sponsors.” [myad]
All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari has made it clear that he would not condone any initiative from anywhere that would seek to promote one religion over the other. General Buhari, who spoke yesterday night at an interactive session with the Catholic Bishops under the aegis of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) at the Pope John Paul II Catholic Centre in Wuse 2, Abuja declared: “let me state this categorically, that I, Muhammadu Buhari, as an individual, and as president of this great country by the grace of God, given the opportunity to serve, have no personal religious agenda. And I will not entertain, consider or promote the religious agenda of anyone. I will not condone any initiative that seeks to promote one religion over the other. Neither I, nor my party, or any member of my team has any desire or plan to Islamize or Christianize Nigeria or support anyone with such intention.” The APC flagbearer said: “I would like to solemnly declare that in spite of what our detractors say, I am not a religious fanatic of any sort and I have never been. “In all my life, I have never supported extremism of any kind, and nowhere in my record of service to this nation can this false toga, political opponents have tried so hard to put on me, be substantiated. Indeed, it is very unfortunate and I feel extremely sad that I have to give this type of assurance. “My background is in the army, and there is no doubt that the military is the most integrated pan-Nigerian institution. And even today, the military is one of the institutions that represents the pride of our nation’s possibilities in unity. Compatriots from every corner of this country come together, work and live together, entrust their lives to each other and integrate their families. It is a military where many of my dearest friends, from all faiths and parts of the country, lost their lives defending the unity of our nation. That was the military I served in, and in that military it was impossible to be a bigot. “Although I am a practising Muslim, and I have been so all my life, I have never belonged to, nor shared the views of, any extremist group. I am not even a cleric. I believe that religion is personal and private. Many of the people close to me are not of my religion. My cook and driver for 20 years are Christians, Most of my bodyguards are Christians. Some were killed while protecting me in the terrorist attack on my convoy in Kaduna. If I have not Islamized these people who serve under me, how will I Islamize the likes of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Ogbonnaya Onu, Governors Rochas Okorocha, Kayode Fayemi, Rotimi Amaechi or Professor Yemi Osinbajo who is a senior advocate of Nigeria and a pastor? Or how will I Islamize Nigeria? Our constitution, which in many respects, is similar to the American constitution does not permit a state religion. The Sharia identified in the constitution is almost synonymous with customary law. It is only applicable in matters of personal status such as marriage, divorce and inheritance. This has been the case since the 1979 constitution. Just as no one can make any customary or any other religious law the law of Nigeria, so Sharia cannot therefore be the law of Nigeria. “My record is evidence of this strongly held belief. Before my tenure, the deadly and violent extremist radical sect, Maitasine carried out terrorist activities in the north, especially Kano; when it erupted again in Yola, during my tenure, I took direct command, and personally led the successful effort to eradicate the threat to our country. Similarly, when some Chadian insurgents attempted to occupy Nigerian territory, I led the military confrontation that eliminated the threat.” General Buhari said that for him, the issue of religion was, and should always, be a matter of personal conviction. He said that this personal conviction and approach to religion have defined his work and interactions all his life, “including my tenure in office as military Head of State. The religion of all those I worked with was never a factor in their progress or in what happened to them. All that mattered then, and should still matter today, are competence, integrity and readiness to be fair to all. “I was recently informed that we had a balanced cabinet with key positions such as Finance, Energy and Defence occupied by Christians. In addition, 11 of the 19 governors I appointed were Christians. My most memorable recollections of subordinate service was under Christian bosses, the finest our country had then, and among the most respected today. “Indeed one of the best appraisals I received in the course of my military career was from General T.Y Danjuma.” General Buhari argued that government has no business preferring one religion to the other, saying that the role of government is to protect lives and properties of citizens and to respect and protect their constitutional rights. He noted that one critical freedom that every government must strive to protect is the liberty for citizens to exercise their respective faiths, Christians and Muslims or others, in a lawful manner without fear or hindrance and to prosecute those who use religion as an excuse to destroy homes, schools and places of worship. He said that when governments fail in that duty, they must then assist in the rebuilding of structures, including destroyed places of worship and giving full restitution for lost property. According to General Buhari, Nigerians, are a religious people, and that burning of places of worship constitutes one of the vilest forms of abomination to all those who believe in God. It is the duty of governments, he said, to protect this important sensitivity. The APC Presidential hopeful wanted all Nigerians to learn to live together as brothers and sisters, because the problems that bedevil the country do not discriminate based on religion or ethnicity. “Poverty and hunger do not know or respect religion or creed. When a bomb explodes in a market, it kills and maims without regard for religion or ethnicity. The millions of the unemployed youth of our country cut across all tribes and religions.” He said that wicked propagandists have continued to spread vicious lies about him for political gain, including claiming that he once asked Muslims not to vote for Christians. He described such propaganda as the height of absurdity, asking that how could he ever say that, when he knew that whoever voted for him would be voting for the Christian running with him on the same ticket. “And how could I ever say that of Christians when my own holy book, the Qur’an, tells me that in the entire world, those that are nearest in love to me are those who believe in Jesus Christ (AS)? I ask, who, intending to win any election, ever does that? How can I choose southern Christian running mates (Chuba Okadigbo of blessed memory, Pastor Tunde Bakare and Pastor Yemi Osinbajo) and with them by my side make such silly utterances? “Because they have no record, they must seek to destroy our own; and because they have no integrity, they feel they must impugn our own. We must reject those who propagate hatred, ethnicity, divisiveness, sectionalism or seek to manipulate our religious differences in such cynical fashion. “On our part, we will remain undeterred: our commitment is to bring about change in the way we live and think and work in this nation; and our goal is to ensure a decent existence for all. And, by the Grace of God, that is what we will do—we will remain true to our commitment and we will achieve our goal.” He said that as Nigeria approaches the most crucial election in its history, all true patriots needed to have deeper reflection of the basic ingredients that bind the nation together, saying that they are “our common freedom, peace and unity. This reflection is even more relevant in the face of the illegal postponement of the general elections a feat achieved through various sinister ploys and with the sole aim of avoiding the will and verdict of the people. In all of these, I feel the urge to communicate some of my personal vision and thoughts to the people of our great country, especially on the question of religion, a sensitive matter for many citizens that have become the most frequently used tool by the ruling party. This affords me an opportunity to give my response to the ruling party’s false propaganda and lies against my person.” General Buhari advised that Nigerians should at all times, hold the unity, peace and progress of the country as paramount. “Those who deliberately disseminate divisive disinformation and attempt to stoke primordial sentiments using religion or ethnicity and create fear in the minds of our people fail the standard of patriotism this nation demands of them and deserves from them. The ruling government and PDP have adopted this sad divisive and false narrative as their strategy to prevent the inevitable change that our country and people desire and require. And they have succeeded in making some of us victims of the tales which they invent, propagate and sell as gospel truth to gullible listeners, while it is all nothing but a tissue of lies.” [myad]
President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed confidence in the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega and that he has no intention of removing him from office before the March 28/April 11 general elections.
This is even as he dismissed claims in some quarters that he influenced the postponement by INEC, of the 2015 general elections from February 14 and 28 to March 28 and April 11.
President Jonathan, who spoke today on Presidential Media Chat in on Radio and Television stations across the country said: “I appointed Jega. If I feel that Jega is not good for obvious reasons, I have the power to remove him and I have not told anybody that I will remove him.”
President Jonathan said that he was not consulted by either INEC or the security chiefs before the poll shift was announced last Saturday night by INEC Chairman, Professor Jega.
“I was not consulted and I do not want to be consulted.”
He recalled an incident in 2011 when INEC postponed the presidential election by two weeks, adding: “I was already in my village in Bayelsa for the election when the postponement was announced and I had to return to Abuja. INEC did not consult me. If it did, I would not have wasted my time going to the village.”
Jonathan expressed the confidence that Boko Haram would be driven out of the occupied parts of the country before the new dates for the elections in keeping with the promise of the security chiefs who requested for the poll shift on security grounds.
“I am not saying that Boko Haram will be wiped out before the election but a lot of advances will be made in the next six weeks.”
He assured that the elections would definitely hold on the rescheduled dates, adding: “Nobody is saying that we will wipe out Boko Haram before we hold the elections. Boko Haram is not a regular army. Afterall, Boko Haram was there when we held elections in 2011.”
Jonathan raised hopes on the rescue of the Chibok school girls who have been in Boko Haram’s captivity since April last year.
“On the fate of the Chibok girls, now that we are working with Chad and other neighbours, I believe that in the next few weeks the story of the Chibok girls will be different and we will rescue them. Of course, we will recover them alive; we do not want anyone to be killed.”
The President expressed confidence that the polls would be peaceful and allayed fears that it would lead to war. [myad]
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