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Boko Haram's Violent Push Puts New Heat on Nigerian President - WSJ - 0 views

  • Boko Haram’s abduction of more than 100 Nigerian schoolgirls last week is sending political shock waves through a key U.S. counterterrorism ally in Africa as President Muhammadu Buhari weighs whether to seek re-election.
  • won 2015 elections on a campaign to defeat the Islamist insurgency and liberate more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls, whose 2014 abduction prompted a global outcry.
  • The kidnapping of 110 girls from the Dapchi Government Girls Science and Technical College in northeastern Yobe state has emboldened his critics, who draw parallels to the Chibok abductions and the potential political fallout in Africa’s most-populous nation and biggest economy.
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  • None of the Dapchi girls has been found. Nigeria’s government on Tuesday said it had set up a probe led by senior security officials to investigate the abductions.
  • The U.S. State Department last week condemned the attack and emphasized its support for Nigeria’s efforts to counter terror groups.
  • The abduction could have an equally detrimental effect on Buhari’s electoral fortunes as Chibok had on his predecessor.”
  • But revelations after the abductions that the government recently withdrew security forces stationed to protect the town, saying they were needed elsewhere, has deepened anger in Dapchi.
  • The security situation is in a shambles—Boko Haram are calling the shots,” said Maria Urgbashi, who runs a food stall close to the Hilton hotel. Another trader, Umar Danjuma, agreed: “Buhari has done his best, but I don’t think his best is good enough to take Nigeria out this present hardship.”
  • remains the front-runner if he is healthy and popular enough to secure his governing APC party’s nomination.
  • The APC—which on Monday opened its annual congress—is deeply divided, as is the opposition PDP
  • The APC has the political and economic advantages of incumbency, and the president isn’t seen as personally corrupt.
  • Buhari has governed more like a king than a leader at the center of a sophisticated political structure,”
  • Buhari has repeatedly claimed to have technically defeated appears to be stubbornly resilient. After losing hundreds of square miles of territory to government forces, the jihadists have increased attacks in the past year, sending more than 90 children strapped with bombs into public places.
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