Following the recent boko haram onslaught against the nation, President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted he will not resign from office if the Nigerian Military fails to end insurgency by December as promised.
Buhari stated this on Friday while speaking to Al Jazeera, insisting he is determined to stamp out the ungodly activities of the sect even if it outlived December, 2015.
The President during his presidential campaign had vowed to tackle the extremist sect , with his first move against them being the relocation of the military command and control centre to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital as early as his inauguration day.
Despite the doggedness of the military to give the radical Islamic sect a run for their money, the insurgents have continually bombed the N/East with the latest of such episodes being the attack of a Mosque, early Friday morning in Maiduguri, leaving several people dead.
On October 2, Boko Haram bombers surged all the way to the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, with twin bomb blasts in Nyanya, a location which is 12 minutes drive to Asokoro where the presidential villa is.
Kuje, a town that houses the Kuje Maximum Prison was also attacked on the same day.
To political critics, Buhari’s marching order to the military to defeat Boko Haram by December may be a pipe dream.
With what seemed like the high morale of the military in combating the sect, Buhari maintained that the battle against terror must be fought and won.
The President during the interview declared that he “will not resign” even if he doesn’t fulfill his promise to defeat Boko Haram by December. “I will…stay and fight it out,” he said indignantly.
He however added he was dealing to parley with the terrorists to try and free the kidnapped Chibok girls: “We said it and we meant it.
“They have to prove to us that they are alive, they are well, and then we can…negotiate with them,”
When asked whether he would offer financial payments, or a prisoner release, to Boko Haram in return for the girls, Buhari did not rule out either option.
“It depends on the negotiations with the leadership of Boko Haram.”
The President stressed his belief that defeating Boko Haram by the end of 2015 was not in any way him clutching vapours
“As soon as the rainy season comes, which is by the end of the year […] Boko Haram will virtually be out of their main stronghold and that will be the end of it [….] Attacks by Boko Haram on townships, on military installations, will certainly stop.”
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