Massive attack on Abuja soon
Factional Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, on Monday threatened to carry out a massive attack on Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.
He also vowed, in a new video in Hausa and Arabic, that he would no longer kill fellow Muslims.
In the video monitored by TheCable, Shekau said the time had come to fight Nigeria and the world.
He also pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and warned the Nigerian government not to rejoice over the recent division in the group.
He vowed not to accept the leadership of Abu Musab al-Barnawi, who was declared last week as the new head of Boko Haram by IS.
On Thursday, Shekau had issued an audio tape, saying he was still alive and in control of the group.
His tape was in response to the declaration of al-Barnawi as new Boko Haram leader.
The new leader fired back on Friday, accusing Shekau of living in opulence while his field officers, women and children were dying of hunger.
"I, Abubakar Ash-Shakawy (Shekau), the leader of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, made it a duty for myself to fight Nigeria and the whole world. We have no desire to fight our Muslim brethren. I’m alive by the permission of Allah.
“Let the government of Nigeria and West Africa not celebrate or gloat over the division between us and our brothers….We will shock them with attacks never seen before, in no-distant time.
“They [the Abu Musab group] do nothing but to create division among our people without an iota of contribution to the jihad.
“This is time to fight; it is the time of jihad. We are not killing fellow Muslims. We are not calling Muslims non-believers. We fight and kill those who God has ordered to be fought, those we call non-believers are people so called by God.”
The video, which was released on Monday, marks Shekau’s first appearance since March 2016.
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