2015: North Threatens Jonathan With Chibok Girls

President Goodluck Jonathan has been told to ensure he rescues the abducted girls of a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, on or before October 31, 2014, or forget his speculated ambition to run in the 2015 presidential election.

This threat was handed out to the President by the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, on Monday.

The schoolgirls were kidnapped by members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, on April 15, 2014 at their dormitory during their final year exams.

In a signed statement by both Barrister Solomon Dalung and Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the northern group noted that Nigeria has the capability to conquer terrorism in the country and wondered why the girls have not yet been rescued after four months.

“The security situation in our nation today represents the most serious threat to our individual and collective lives in our entire history,” the group observed.

Stating further, the NEF pointed that, “We also reject the notion that multiple internal security challenges such as attacks on villages, ethno-religions conflicts and banditry springing up by the day in many parts of the north are all a coincidence.”

“Indeed, we are convinced that most of these conflicts are being engineered to weaken the North politically and economically by interests which intend to exploit such weaknesses for electoral benefits,” the group said further.

Dropping its bombshell, the NEF stated that, “In the light of our firm conviction that the insurgency and related security challenges pose threats to the 2015 elections and the survival of our nation, we strongly advise President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to bring an end to the insurgency in all its manifestations and produce the Chibok girls before the end of October, 2014.

“The circumstances under which our fellow citizens in and around Gwoza in Borno state in particular live and die will not be tolerated by any people who have a government and a leader sworn to defend them, and they must be reversed immediately.

“In the event that President Jonathan fails to do this, Nigerians will be left with the only conclusion that he has forfeited his right to ask for our mandate beyond 2015.”