President Goodluck Jonathan says he will “surely” win the 2015
presidential election which will hold on March 28. Speaking in an interview
with the BBC, Jonathan said categorically: “I’ll surely win.” The election is
generally expected to be very tough, with many analysts concluding that
Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general and presidential candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), would win.
The postponement of the election from the original February
14 date was attributed to the fear of losing by Jonathan, but the president
told the BBC he is confident of winning the election. He also spoke on the Boko
Haram insurgents, admitting for the first time that they were initially
underrated by the government.
But now he said they are getting weaker and all
territories under their control would be retaken within a month. “They are
getting weaker and weaker by the day,” he said. “I’m very hopeful that it will
not take us more than a month to recover the old territories that hitherto have
been in their [Boko Haram’s] hands.”
While admitting that the
authorities had “under-estimated” the militants, he also reiterated that the
military lacked the resources to fight them until now. Jonathan said that newly
acquired military equipment, as well as co-operation with neighboring
countries, had helped push the insurgents out.
On the Chibok girls, he said he was hopeful they are
still alive and some of them may be at the Sambisa forest. Kenneth Minimah, a
lieutenant general and chief of army staff, said during the week that there
were no traces of the girls yet in all the towns and villages retaken from Boko
Haram.
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