politics and nigeria development

                   The Mr president confirm that he didn't instigate the sudden uplift of the ongoing presidential election.this is true that it wasn't his intention  but for the public look is a better thing to do so that the government and the security leaders to undermined their political leadership and equip the security agent against any inhumane misbehave while election,and to protect all the participant against boko haram.  

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said he didn’t instigate the postponement of presidential elections to next month, and predicted rapid gains against the Islamist militants whose campaign of violence caused the delay.

Nigeria’s election commission on Feb. 7 moved national and state elections back by six weeks, to March 28 and April 11, citing concerns that there won’t be adequate security for voting as they step up their offensive against Boko Haram Islamist militants in the northeast.

“I didn’t decide the dates for the elections, I wasn’t consulted, I didn’t want to be consulted,” Jonathan said in an interview broadcast Wednesday on state television. “Elections will be conducted and if I lose, we’ll inaugurate a new government.”

Boko Haram has been battling for six years to establish Islamic law in Africa’s most populous country and biggest oil producer. The group killed more than 4,700 people last year, double the number who died in 2013, according to estimates from U.K.-based risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft. African Union officials have agreed to create a regional force to fight the group, whose violence has forced more than 1 million Nigerians from their homes.

Jonathan’s ruling People’s Democratic Party will face a united opposition led by former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari in what analysts predict will be the tightest contest since the PDP came to power in 1999.

Pledges of military support from Nigeria’s neighbors Niger, Chad and Cameroon, as well as weapons recently acquired for the security forces, have raised hopes that Boko Haram insurgents will be tamed soon and the hundreds of schoolgirls they kidnapped last year rescued, Jonathan said. “Watch out for the next three weeks,” he said.

The Nigerian leader dismissed speculation he planned to fire Attahiru Jega, chairman of the electoral agency, and replace him with a more pliant official.

“I appointed Jega and his commissioners,” Jonathan said. “People should disregard rumors Jega will be removed.”

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