President Muhammadu Buhari has said, he “will not resign” if he is unable to defeat Boko Haram by December as promised. In an exclusive interview with Mehdi Hasan on Al Jazeera English’s ‘Upfront’, President Buhari said, he would instead be “determined to stay on and fight it out".
The president also reiterated the willingness of his administration to negotiate with the Boko Haram insurgents to release the kidnapped Chibok girls on the condition that the true leaders of the Islamist sect come forward for dialogue.
Buhari who did not rule out the options of financial payments, or a prisoner release, to Boko Haram in exchange for the girls, said, "Well, it depends on the negotiations with the leadership of Boko Haram." Buhari however assured that Boko Haram will be defeated by the end of 2015.
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