The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II, has expressed optimism that the Boko Haram insurgency which has claimed some 13,000 lives will soon be over, ThisDay reports.
“I say help is on the way. Terror must and will be defeated,” Sanusi tweeted on Sunday.
“All it requires is the good leaders, uncommon courage and unrelenting determination, and victory will be ours.”
According to Business Standard, Sanusi, Nigeria’s second most powerful Islamic leader, was presumably referring to the emergence of former military ruler, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, as the candidate of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) in next year’s presidential election.
Buhari will challenge President Goodluck Jonathan’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the country’s top job on February 14.
“We will together see the end of them and their reign of terror,” Sanusi said.
Sanusi became emir earlier this year after being suspended from his post as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), where he was one of the government’s high-profile critics.
Last month, he voiced support for vigilantes fighting Boko Haram in the volatile North-east, urging others to form civilian militias and questioning the competence of the military to end the five-year-old insurgency.
Credit: ThisDay
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