Jonathan had on May 14, 2013 declared a six-month state of emergency
in the three states and renewed it twice at the peak of the sect’s
activities.
Governors of the North-East states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe rose
from an emergency expanded security meeting with President Goodluck
Jonathan on Tuesday, insisting that elections must hold in their states
next month.
There have been fears in many quarters that general elections may not
hold next month in the three states that are considered to be the
hotbeds of the Boko Haram sect.
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His attempt to further renew the emergency rule in November 2014 was rejected by the National Assembly.
At the end of the Tuesday meeting also attended by security chiefs
and relevant ministers, the governor’s were of the view that if
elections could be held recently in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other
war-torn places, that of the North East part of the country could not be
an exception.
Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Geidam, told State House
correspondents that the governor’s told the President to deploy more
troops ahead of the general elections.
Geidam said the troops on ground in the affected states were not enough to handle the security situation.
The governor said, “We have come to brief the President on the
security features of our various states, we have come to greet him and
we told him of the challenges we have been facing.
“We are appealing to the Federal Government to deploy more troops in
addition to what we have on ground to arrest the situation in our
various states.
“We need more troops, the troops that we have on ground in our
various states are not enough to contain the situation, so we have
appealed to the Federal Government to deploy additional troops with full
equipment to tame the situation.
“Elections will hold in the states. Election will hold, that is the
position of the electoral commission and definitely in all those areas
where insurgency exists, elections will hold.”
Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, on his part said
elections must hold in the affected states to send a strong signal to
the insurgents.
He said by not holding elections in the states, the government would be seen to have given in to the antics of the sect.
The governor argued that elections could be conducted in Internally Displaced Person’s camps.
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“Where was President Jonathan when his spokespersons and party
members sought to pit Christians against Muslims by labelling the
country’s main opposition party, the APC, an Islamic Party? Where was
President Jonathan when his spokespersons and party members sought to
portray all adherents of a particular faith as terrorists? Not once did
this President call his loquacious and sycophantic supporters to order
when they were denigrating people of other tribes, calling them
unprintable names. Not once did he call his supporters to order when
