FG will wipe out Boko Haram camps before elections – Dasuki

The National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), has said
that all known camps of the Boko Haram sect will be destroyed before
the election scheduled to hold on March 28.
He also said that the Federal Government would not postponed the new
date slated for the general elections again.
"All known Boko Haram camps will be taken out. They won't be there.
They will be dismantled," Sambo Dasuki told the AFP news agency on
Monday.
"Those dates will not be shifted again," Dasuki said when asked if the
polls, initially scheduled for February 14, could be pushed back
further.
Dasuki said he believed the new military cooperation agreed two weeks
ago between Nigeria and its neighbours – Cameroon, Chad and Niger –
would prove decisive against Boko Haram.
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Dasuki had urged election officials on Saturday to postpone the polls
on the grounds that the military could not provide nationwide election
security because all available resources were being deployed to the
North-East to fight Boko Haram.
His justification for the delay was widely criticised, in part because
the military was not primarily responsible for election security in
Nigeria.
Troops have only been called in when police and civil defence units
have needed reinforcements.
Dasuki said there was no political motive underlying his call for a delay.
"It's not everybody who does things for selfish reasons. Some of us
have a conscience," he said.
Dasuki said the postponement could easily help the opposition All
Progressives Congress, because improved security could boost turnout
in the North-East, an APC stronghold.
The APC Presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.),
had while speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera on Sunday, said the
elections should not have been postponed but that his party would ask
their supporters to remain calm.
"There is no need for it [the delay]," he said.
"If the same military cannot secure 14 local governments out of the
774 in six years, how can they be sure they can secure those 14 in six
weeks?"
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