There are several forces at play that make the new
timeline for Nigerian elections a one-time chance for
a decisive strike against Boko Haram. In addition to
Boko Haram, Nigerian elections have a potential for
violence themselves. With or without a domestic
Islamist, insurgency a delay of elections is
interpreted by the Muslim north and the All
Progressive Congress party of presidential candidate
Muhammadou Buhari as an extra-constitutional
attempt to prolong power. That was one rational
against the postponement of elections until the
decision was made to do so on Saturday, a week
before the scheduled elections.
Apart from a rational, the calculus for Nigerian
incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan might
well have been to keep the election date, avoid the
appearance of prolonging his term in office, and
allow the disenfranchisement caused by Boko Haram
to work in his favor. Such a scenario would allow for
Candidate Buhari’s camp to reject the election results
and resort to violence.
Mr. Buhari was believed to be behind the 2011
violence in the north when a Muslim rejection of a
southern Christian’s election led to more than 300
deaths and thousands displaced. With Boko Haram in
the mix, the collective downsides over-shadowed
appearances of good protocol by keeping the original
date. The U.S. and the international community had
urged as much.
The presidential and parliamentary elections will now
take place on March 28. Elections for governors and
state legislators will take place on Feb. 28. Until now
it has been ostensible that Mr. Jonathan had little
interest in confronting Boko Haram and the
international attention has put him in an awkward
spotlight. If Mr. Jonathan’s administration fails to
seize this window to take the reigns of the Nigerian
military and significantly disable Boko Haram, it will
confirm that he does not see himself as the
president of all of Nigeria but only the south. The
strength of former military dictator Buhari’s
campaign is that his supporters believe he can
achieve security and defeat Boko Haram where Mr.
Jonathan has failed. The political moment between
now and the Feb. 28 regional elections is likely the
last calm moment for Mr. Jonathan to galvanize
against Boko Haram before Mr. Buhari’s political
leverage reaches a critical mass. If Mr. Jonathan
makes it through the elections without taking the
upper hand against Boko Haram, he will face greater
challenges with an even weaker mandate.
At such a crossroad, it’s important to have a good
measure of who Mr. Buhari is. The fundamental
political difference between Mr. Buhari’s group and
those who would become Boko Haram back in 2000
was a factional split over who could best purify the
Muslim north of political corruption and enforce the
best interpretation of shariah law. In the year 2000,
Mr. Buhari’s political colleagues were debating
whether they could accept a moderate enforcement
of shariah law in the North.

“I can die for the cause of Islam. If necessary, we are
prepared to fight another civil war. We cannot be
blackmailed into killing Sharia” - Muhammadou
Buhari, 2000 Freedom House.

Of course Mr. Buhari will play the role of a moderate
now. Not enough eyelids were raised by U.. Secretary
of State John Kerry’s visit so close to the election last
month. It was then fair to speculate that Mr. Kerry
was offering assurances of cooperation in exchange
for assurances of a peaceful election. Despite the
administration’s recent lectures on state visits near
election time that concerned Bibi Netanyahu of Israel
and Angela Merkel of German, the State Department
played tone-def to the legitimacy and perceived U.S.
approval given to Mr. Buhari in his meeting with Mr.
Kerry. The public acknowledgement of the meeting in
diplomatic currency was indeed a clear act of
favoritism.
Thanks to the reporting of Adam Kredo, we now know
that it was something more nefarious. David Axelrod
is Mr. Buhari’s lobbyist and in this administration you
can buy the presidency of Africa’s most populous
nation. According to the Washington Free Beacon
report, Mr. Axelrod’s firm, AKPD, was employed by
Mr. Buhari’s APC party as recently as December
2014. The timing of Mr. Kerry’s visit the next month
within in that context puts a shorter lifespan on the
Jonathan presidency.
President Jonathan must now fight without firm
footing against Boko Haram, his political opponents,
U.S. diplomats and their lobbyists. He has about a
month to make something happen.
Nicholas Hanlon is Chief Africa Analyst at the Center
for Security Policy.


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I personally dislike buhari coz I don't trust the members of his cabinet. We keep saying Gej administration is bad... Gej and buhari is like animal, one is rabbit while the other is snake.. Both of them can bite when tempted to but which one is more preferable? We have know what gej is up to and his limitations but this military man, I don't trust him

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SAI BUHARI

He shouldn't have allowed this security issue drag for this long. He's the architect of his own challenges alongside his advisers.

So finally, even washingtontimes bought this poo.

PDP normal hatred propaganda

Buhari is a terrorist.

Buhari is like a leopard dat can't change its spots!

BUHARI IS ONLY FIT TO BE AN IMAM OR EMIR, DEFINITELY NOT A PRESIDENT IN NIGERIA