‘We’ll meet presidential deadline on Boko Haram’ - Colonel Rabe Abubakar

Yesterday Spokesman of the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) Colonel Rabe Abubakar  assured Nigerians that the military will attain the December Presidential deadline to crush out Boko Haram insurgency in the country.

He gave the assurance in a meeting with the editorial team of Media Trust Limited, publishers of the Daily Trust newspaper titles at its Abuja head office.

He said: 

“We are on course, to meet the deadline given to us by President Buhari, with the active collaboration of the Chief of Defense Staff and other Service Chiefs, the insurgency will definitely be over before the deadline or at worst on the deadline.”

“we will maintain that level of momentum; we are not going to fail Nigerians,” noting that: “I believe the activities of Boko Haram will very soon be a thing of the past.”