BY Mayowa Tijani
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has released a new video, threatening to disrupt the forthcoming general election at any cost.
The latest video seemed unusual, as Shekau was spotting a different outfit with a blue background, while the video quality was higher than previous releases.
“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 to him. Only his rule is the one which applies on this land,” he 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.”
In the video, titled ‘A message to the leaders of the disbelievers’, Shekau also directed a message at the regional countries coordinating a new offensive against his group.
“You are claiming that we don’t know how to fight, but we forced your forces to flee from their bases and we freed our imprisoned brothers from the prisons that you oppressed them in. Only praise be to Allah,” he said.
The 15-minute film was released via the group’s newly created Twitter account, after the first account in the name of Alurwa Alwuthqa was blocked in the first week of February.
Nigeria’s general elections were initially scheduled for February 14 and 28, 2015, before being shifted to March 28 and April 11 for security reasons.
Analysts suggest that the group is stepping up its game after the order of Islamic State (ISIS).
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