The Jamaatu Ahlis Sunnah Lil Daawati wal Jihad, better known as Boko Haram has called on president Goodluck Jonathan to honourably resign and convert to Islam, saying that it is not negotiating with any government representative and has no plans to do so.
The radical group disclosed this in a half-hour video made in Hausa and posted on YouTube.
The video appeared more of a tirade of abuse with the group offering no logical explanation or reason for its demands and positions.
In the video, which was made by the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, in the form of an Islamic lecture, the group claimed that it doesn’t kill “women and children,” but those “who have offended us, arrested our people and killed them.”
The group also alleged that some people were committing evil acts in its name and that it would go after such people.
The group also rejected any plans by the Federal Government to legislate on the number of children Nigerians can have, describing such proposal as “blasphemy.”
The Federal Government has made dialogue with the Boko Haram sect a major way of curtailing the group’s insurgency in Northern Nigeria.
It would be recalled that Ahmed Dasuki, the National Security Adviser pledged to seek ceasefire with the group before the commencement of the Islamic month of Ramadan which entered its 17th day Sunday.
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