"Remember, I also said that on face value, all the girls in the video are believed to part of the abducted girls, but Governor (Kashim) Shettima has insisted that the names of all the girls in the video be established and compared with school and security records," spokesman Isa Gusau said Tuesday.
"The comparison will be done tomorrow as (the) identification exercise continues through the night until every person in that video is named," said Gusau.
Earlier, Shettima had said that relatives had identified just 54 of the girls. Shettima said he met with families of the kidnapped girls earlier Tuesday in Borno state's capital, Maiduguri, at which time the families identified some of their girls.
Shettima said the others also attended the school, but he did not explain how he knew that.
Some relatives also told CNN that more than 50 parents of girls abducted last month watched the videos in the Mbalala district and also in Chibok, and didn't see any of their daughters in the crowd.
That's not necessarily surprising -- the video shows about 100 girls, not the full 276 abducted from Chibok by Boko Haram.
But the relatives interviewed by CNN -- an uncle of one of the girls who escaped and the parents of two missing girls -- said they believe the video also shows some girls abducted as much as two years ago.
The confusion is significant because the video had been hailed as proof that at least some girls in the Chibok abduction -- the object of international search efforts -- were alive and well. Such proof would be a crucial part of any possible negotiations that could lead to the release of the girls.
"I think we've got to be realistic," CNN analyst Frances Townsend said Tuesday on "New Day." "Even in a negotiation, because of the large number of captives, you are unlikely to return all approximately 300 girls to their families and reunite them healthy, safe and well."
Source: CNN
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