Nigerian Military Dismisses Shekau’s Threat To Bomb Nigerians During Elections

The Director of Defence Information, Major
General Chris Olukolade, has reacted to Boko
Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau’s threat of
causing mayhem during the 2015 general
elections.by giving strong assurances that the
military is poised to secure Nigeria during and
after the elections.
General Olukolade told Channels Television on
Wednesday that no amount of threat will deter
the military’s operations from taking place in
the North East or anywhere in the country.
He also said a lot of successes have been
achieved in the past week, in the fight against
insurgency adding that Mongunu and other
towns hitherto controlled by Boko Haram have
been recovered by the Nigerian Military.
The Director of Defence Information, Major
General Chris Olukolade, has reacted to Boko
Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau’s threat of
causing mayhem during the 2015 general
elections.by giving strong assurances that the
military is poised to secure Nigeria during and
after the elections.
General Olukolade told Channels Television on
Wednesday that no amount of threat will deter
the military’s operations from taking place in
the North East or anywhere in the country.
He also said a lot of successes have been
achieved in the past week, in the fight against
insurgency adding that Mongunu and other
towns hitherto controlled by Boko Haram have
been recovered by the Nigerian Military.
Recently, the Nigerian military took delivery of
some military hardware to enable it fight the
terrorists to a standstill.
Al Jazeera and the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC) had reported that Abubakar
Shekau, threatened mayhem during Nigeria’s
presidential election scheduled to hold on
March 28.
Shekau, in a new video purportedly released
by the group on Tuesday, that was obtained
by U.S. based SITE intelligence group, issued
a warning that next month’s elections would
be disrupted with violence.
“Allah will not leave you to proceed with these
elections even after us, because you are saying
that authority is from people to people, which
means that people should rule each other, but
Allah says that the authority is only from him,
only his rule is the one which applies on this
land,” the outlawed Boko Haram leader said.
“And finally we say that these elections that
you are planning to do, will not happen in
peace, even if that costs us our lives,” he
added.

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