Contrary to media reports that Boko Haram attacks on soft and hard targets have increased in recent times, President Muhammadu Buhari insists that his administration has defeated insurgency in the North-East. He stated this on Friday at Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, while flagging off 2019 presidential campaign of All Progressive Congress (APC).
The President, who was flanked by the party’s stalwarts, maintained that the insurgents have been dislodged from Borno and Kebbi States which were their major strongholds before he came into power.
“I am standing here to express my gratitude and appreciation to the party for organizing this get-together to start the campaign against next year. If you could recall in 2015 when we traveled the length and breadth of this country and we based our campaign on three fundamental issues, -security, economy and fighting corruption. I want those who want to challenge us at any level, at any constituency to doubt our contributions towards our undertakings.
“First, insecurity in the North East has been really defeated in the sense that when we came we met Boko haram in about 17 local governments in Borno and Yobe states. They are not physically holding any local government now. They resorted to indoctrinating our young ones especially girls. They braced them up in explosives and instructed them to expose themselves in churches, in Mosques, market places and motor parks but I assure you that we are going to clear them off in our county.”
