Shekau In new video.Vows to disrupt elections

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has
released a new video, threatening to disrupt
the forthcoming general election at any cost.
The latest video seemed unusual, as Shekau
was spotting a different outfit with a blue
background, while the video quality was
higher than previous releases.
“Allah will not leave you to proceed with these
elections even after us, because you are saying
that authority is from people to people, which
means that people should rule each other, but
Allah says that the authority is only to him.
Only his rule is the one which applies on this
land,” he said.
“And finally, we say that these elections that
you are planning to do, will not happen in
peace, even if that costs us our lives.”
In the video, titled ‘A message to the leaders of
the disbelievers’, Shekau also directed a
message at the regional countries coordinating
a new offensive against his group.
“You are claiming that we don’t know how to
fight, but we forced your forces to flee from
their bases and we freed our imprisoned
brothers from the prisons that you oppressed
them in. Only praise be to Allah,” he said.
The 15-minute film was released via the
group’s newly created Twitter account, after the
first account in the name of Alurwa Alwuthqa
was blocked in the first week of February.
Nigeria’s general elections were initially
scheduled for February 14 and 28, 2015, before
being shifted to March 28 and April 11 for
security reasons.