Nigeria: Boko Haram - We Must Join Hands to Fight Terrorism - - Ben Obi

3 June 2014
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Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Inter-Party Affairs, Senator Ben Obi, spoke to some journalists in Ado-Ekiti, last Wednesday after organizing a sensitization workshop for stakeholders in the June 21 Ekiti State governorship election.

Among others, he said Ekiti will have rancour-free and credible polls; Nigeria will overcome Boko Haram insurgency with the Nigerian spirit; fears of military coup is a storm in a tea cup and that Nigeria will not break-up in spite of the US prediction. He said Nigeria would have been on top of the insurgency if his two bills on anti-terrorism and establishment of anti-terrorism agency were passed in 2005. Excerpts:

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