Though making Nigerian roads more motorable, building infrastructure across the country, and alleviating poverty are important, they can’t as much perturb the President as the Boko Haram insurgency he inherited does. Failure to deliver the campaign promise and crush the terrorists will cost the party a lot during the next year general elections. Government officials and the ruling party itself have for several times claimed victory over the terrorists. With the way Nigerian military and government are handling the situation in the northeastern part, there’s no true victory over Boko Haram forthcoming. Even if the whole budget for a year is for fighting the sect, without (modern) strategies, the whole fund would be wasted.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 09, 2018 01:05 UTC