Shekau's days are numbered despite allegiance to ISIS-Nigerian Army

The Nigerian Army has assured Nigerians that Boko Haram's purported allegiance to ISIS is a sign of fear and should not put fear in the hearts of Nigerians..  

The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, in an interview on the Hausa service of the BBC said:-

“With or without allegiance to ISIS, the days of Shekau has already been numbered, because all the insurgents’ training camps and hideouts in the affected North-East have been destroyed, while the terrorists have been routed from their camps and hideouts; and those who have escaped our “condone and search operations” in the Sambisa Forest and the Lake Chad Basin Areas, are on the run, abandoning their operational vehicles, arms and ammunitions,”He said that the Boko Haram’sallegiance to ISIS was meant to cause more “fears and terror” among Nigerian citizens, because the modus operandi of insurgents, are also similar to the Islamic fundamentalists in some Middle Eastcountries.”“Shekau’s public allegiance to IS clearly indicates that he may surrender or be killed in the ongoing joint military operations of Nigeria and three neighbouring countries of Chad, Cameroon and Niger,”..

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