Islamist group Boko Haram has vowed to make voting impossible in Nigeria’s upcoming election after a spate of deadly attacks in the country’s violence-wracked northeast. The group’s leader Abubakar Shekau said in a new video posted on Twitter late on Tuesday evening that his fighters would disrupt polling in Africa’s most populous nation scheduled for March 28.
“This election will not be held even if we are dead. Even if we are not alive, Allah will never allow you to do it,” he said in the Hausa language widely spoken in northern Nigeria.