President Goodluck Jonathan has
said no group can threaten him
before he will perform his official
duties.
He said it was wrong for any
group to issue a threat asking him
to rescue Chibok schoolgirls
before he could get the support of
any person or group for his 2015
presidential ambition.
President Jonathan, who spoke
through his Senior Special
Assistant to the President, Public
Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said he
was already working on how to
rescue the abducted girls.
Okupe, in the statement in Abuja
on Tuesday, was responding to a
threat by the members of the
Northern Elders Forum on
Monday, where they issued
October deadline for the condition
to be met.
The NEF position was made known
through two of its members,
Solomon Dalung and Dr. Hakeem
Baba-Ahmed.
It will be recalled that since three
months ago when the more than
200 girls abducted by the
members of the dreaded Boko
Haram sect have been, eleven of
their parents have died.
The northern elders were of the
opinion the military can defeat the
Boko Haram terrorists – if, indeed,
the government wants to subdue
the sect.
They said, “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.
“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
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.”
Okupe, while faulting the northern
elders, said “President Jonathan
does not require any threat or
ultimatum from any group of
persons to be alive to his
responsibilities to the Nigerian
People.”
He added that the issue of
insurgency, especially those
ideologically based on Islamic
extremism was a global
phenomenon, which he said
required tact, military capability,
serious de-radicalisation
techniques and community based
counter insurgency programmes
to ensure success.
In these areas, he said the Federal
Government was making progress.
He said the military and other
security agencies were improving
on operational capabilities and
efficiencies by acquiring more
advanced weapons and
technologies.
Apart from this, he said the
government had also drafted more
military personnel to the region to
strengthen its fighting power.
Okupe added that the government
was equally taking advantage of
the offers from international
military and intelligence allies to
assist in identifying key locations.
He said, “We are working with our
neighbours to secure the borders
and limit the movements of the
Boko Haram fighters, building on
the agreements reached at the
recent summits in Paris and
London.
“We are deploying more resources
to maximize operational efficiency,
acquire more advanced and
relevant weaponry and boost the
general morale of our
combatants. This is why the
Government recently requested
for an additional funding of $1bn.
“And the last piece in the puzzle is
targeting the domestic and
international funding, and
stopping the money flows into the
coffers of the terrorists.”
On the suggestion that the
government was carrying out
plans aimed at scheming to
annihilate any section of the
country for political gain, Okupe
said such accusation was
“preposterous, contrary to
common sense, divisive and
essentially a deliberate attempt to
disseminate ‘hate mentality’ and
cause mischief.”
He said President Jonathan was
voted for by an overwhelming
majority of Nigerians across the
board, and that he will never
promote any policy that is either
divisive or inimical to the
wellbeing of any section of the
polity.


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Thanks Mr president
They can't do more than a dead rat

babyosisi: Thanks Mr president
They can't do more than a dead rat

nne join the thread here.(repost) https://www.nairaland.com/1854628/cant-threaten-me-jonathan-tells

now he's beginning to act like a president..something he should have been doing years ago....



habemus papam=we now have a president..

gej till forever

let dem boko bois treat their future wives anyhow na.... Thank God i dont av plans of marrying a hausa or a muslim girls

nothern elders boko are buhari boys, advanced almajiri. Let buhari put a stop to it.

The same people camping, feeding and clothing the so Chibok girls are the same people talking trash, When Osisikankwu and his gang was terrorising the South East, who threatened
Yar,Adua. FOOLS.

babyosisi: Thanks Mr president
They can't do more than a dead rat

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Well..the northern leaders firstly betrayed their founding dad,betrayed their loyal subjects,betrayed their babalawo's ..and the almighty is seriously angry at their mischief,misdeeds,malfeasance and mal administrations.now see what GEJ almost 5times or more a junior brother to them is doing to them,no remorse for them o! De really deserve whatever comes to them.
Nansense..

dontjealousme:

nne join the thread here.(repost) https://www.nairaland.com/1854628/cant-threaten-me-jonathan-tells

Thunder fire you, na your father owns nairaland?

Numbskull!

Did they threaten him?

If President Jonathan wants to win in 31 of the 36 states in the 2015 elections,
he should sack all the Ibo ministers in his government.
People like Okonji-Iweala and Oduah are the reason people do not like his government.
If they look at Jonathan government, they see Ibo faces.
You see how the pressure on him reduced when he dropped the Ibo chief of army staff?
Now even though are soldiers are dieing like flies, nobody knows the new chief of army.
Nobody calls his name.
Once we know he is not Ibo, no problem. Even if everything dabaru, once it is not Ibo man there, we are ok.
No complain.
It is a good move to remove the Ibo from the army.
If you remove Okonji-Iwealla and put Tinubu as Minister of finance, he has won 57% of the votes (Ibos are less than 10% of Nigerian population}.
Then remove Ayim and put either Olu Falae or Ribadu or Musiwa, that is 70% of the votes.
We will vote you president for life if you just do as i say.

Finally the president grows some balls, even though this seems like the voice of Jonathan but the hands of Dokubo. Northern Elders over to you.

OneNaira6: Did they threaten him?

If giving the president ultimatum is not a threat, then explain better.

Jonathan has been to kul datz y dy even hav d effrontery to b syin rubbish dy did nt born any man grandfather well to sy trash when obj ws president

lilprinze: Jonathan has been to kul datz y dy even hav d effrontery to b syin rubbish dy did nt born any man grandfather well to sy trash when obj ws president

Don't mind them.