Buhari, his aides and officials in the military hierarchy claimed that Boko Haram has been “technically defeated,” “largely defeated,” and the “war largely won.”

See fact check on the number times and when they have made those claims: https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/many-defeats-boko-haram/

Lost count

Bokoharam is cat with 999 lives.

APC keeps using the word 'defeated', but we know the damn and ugly truth already.

Are we even sure the government understands the meaning of the word defeated sef

The government is grossly confused over this issue because APC magnified the BH menace for political propaganda with no iota of clue on how to contain it. Hence we now have words/phrases like "Technically defeated,Soft targets"to justified their helplessness with the trend.