BOKO HARAM VOWS TO DISRUPT ELECTION

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has released a new video where he vowed to disrupt the forthcoming general elections. The video which was released on twitter yesterday February 17th, showed Shekau saying in hausa language that even if he and his members are dead, Allah would not allow the elections to hold

According to AFP, the video appeared to be the first message released by the group on Twitter, a sign of its changing media tactics after previous messages were distributed to journalists on DVD 

"This election will not be held even if we are dead. Even if we are not alive Allah will never allow you to do it," Shekau said in Hausa language

In the video, Shekau said that last weekends attack on Dandikowa village in Gombe state was never repelled by the Nigerian military and that his men overran the troops and freed some of his members who were imprisoned.