Recall, Nigerian Army on Saturday
claimed further gains in its counter-offensive against Boko Haram, but the
group’s shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed the talk of success as “lies”.
However, Shekau said in a
25-minute recording in Hausa and Arabic via social media:
“They (the military) lied that they have confiscated our arms,
that we have been chased out of our territories that we are in disarray.
“We
are alive, I am alive, and this is my voice, more audible than it was before.
This is Shekau.”
“Buhari
is a liar and has deceived you. The army spokesman is also lying. He and his
footsoldiers always run helter-skelter whenever we come face to face with them…
“Buhari,
you once claimed that you will crush us in three months. How can you crush us?”
Shekau directly refers to IS
group leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, to whom he says he is “loyal and
subservient”.
He also name-checks IS spokesman
Abu-Mohammed al-Adnani and sends “greetings to the faithful in Yemen”, where
there is also an IS “affiliate”.
There was no indication of where
or when the recording was made but it appears to have been in recent days.
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