Northern Elders Forum (NEF) on Monday told President Goodluck Jonathan to forget about contesting in 2015 if he fails to produce the Chibok abducted by members the Boko Haram

According to a statement, signed by Barrister Solomon Dalung and Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, NEF stated that they don’t have trust on the Nigeria army to overpower the insurgent in Nigeria and that the problem has some political undertone to divide and weaken the North politically and economically.

 “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 statement was issued after the NEF reviewed the state of the nation to look at the challenges facing the nation from security to economic.

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

 “The lack of a strong will at the level of the presidency to fight it, as well as deep-seated corruption and incompetence in governments and in the management of our security challenges has allowed a band of terrorists to take and hold vast parts of our land and populations hostage, while every citizen lives in fear that they will be its next victim.”

The group also told the president to forget about 2015. “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.”