Nigeria: Dasuki's Claim On Boko Haram False - -Presidency

18 July 2017

Abuja — The Presidency, yesterday, debunked claims by former National Security Adviser, NSA, to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) that the Jonathan's administration cleared the North-East of Boko Haram terrorists to make elections possible in 2015.

The Presidency described Dasuki's claim as not only faulty but laughable as some local government areas in the North-East were under the control of Boko Haram before the President Muhammadu Buhari government came to dismantle all the areas of control by the Islamic sect.

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