In a just concluded interview on Africa Independent Television (AIT), President Goodluck Jonathan has revealed that over 200 abducted schoolgirls of Government Secondary School Chibok, Borno State are still alive.
Featuring on an AIT programme tagged Kakaaki , the president said:
“The good story is that they’ve not been killed”.
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”.
Jonathan, 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.
The president also assured that Adamawa and Yobe States would be completely liberated from the terrorist group before next week.
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.
He said Nigeria would stabilise in so many sectors in the next four years if he is re-elected.
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”.
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”.
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”
He again insisted that there’s no provision for interim government in the country constitution.