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Boko Haram has released a video of its “Eid-el-Kabir prayer”, during which it threatened to capture President Muhammadu Buhari, whom it described as “leader of the entire infidels”.

The video, released and uploaded on YouTube on Tuesday, shows thousands of the sect’s adherents praying at a large mosque in an unspecified location.

“My brothers, i bring you greetings. Here where we have to be Muslims. And because of that we are here with the greetings of Sallah and the message that everyone in the world must be a Muslim,” the man who led the prayers said over a microphone held by a bearded man dressed in the mould of Abubakar Shekau.

“And also, from our leader Abubakar Shekau, and the Imam, we are all bringing the message of Sallah that everyone in the world must become a Muslim the way God has brought us all together under this roof, and the way God has brought us to this cause that everyone must be a Muslim.

“I know God will continue to bring us together. In this place where God has brought us together, God has brought us together under this roof and we must be Muslims.

“God should keep us together. God should keep our families together. May God bless us in this world. May God increase our leaders. Our men our women and our soldiers. Everyone.

“This message is to the infidels and the leader of the entire infidels who is the president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, that he should know we are very strong and doing very well.

“By the will of Allah, under the leadership of our leader Abubakar Shekau, we will capture Buhari with our hands.”

In July 2014, Buhari escaped a bomb blast as he was making his way out of kaduna, but an estimated 50 people were not that lucky. The blast was believed to be the handiwork of Boko Haram