Nigeria’s Delayed Elections Elevates Boko Haram’s Harrowing Relevancy

Boko Haram is winning. Globally they are a trending topic and that I exactly the kind of notoriety they crave to help fuel their renegade antics. The more attention they garner the better and stealing the innocent girls from their dormitories last April was a genius operation that undoubtedly funded their future quests.

The world fell for it and the consequences still resonate as Nigeria, a nation that has endured paralyzing pings of injustice for most of its existence and continues to struggle in its intent to overcome the scars that refuse to heal.

The Nigerian Electoral Commission took a stand and decided to postpone the Feb. 14 elections because of the chaotic climate induced by the inflicting virus that Boko Haram has consistently provided with very little hindrance. The Islamist sect headed by madman Abubakar Shekau has never wavered in its determination to unleash cruel and unusual punishment and their systemized blueprint has produced the kind of results that confirm their ability to be undefeated – despite the realization that they are harrowing terrorists.

Nigeria’s playhouse of mayhem that dares to initiate the idea that this nation is capable of tugging at the threads of a so-called democracy that has never adequately manifested is a tragic construction of the non-existent foundation that seems to torture the plight of the most populous country in the Diaspora. It can’t be discounted that Nigeria’s weak link has always been its inability to steadfastly invest in the pursuits that guarantee the level of progress that can be widely recognized. The expected forecast has always hindered on the bare minimum, which hasn’t spurred any reassurance that we are capable of rising above the turbulence to ensure a smooth endowment of faculties as it pertains to the governmental road map.

Boko Haram has succeeded in ways that is frighteningly evident but surprisingly not duly assigned. They have accrued an impressive number of years exacting their crippling devices, utilizing strategic formulations that can’t be matched by the Nigerian army or challenged by the outside forces. Their initiative was instituted back in 2009 and they emasculated the terrain of targeted landscapes with very little resistance. There was no immediate need from policing organizations to step in and thwart the brutal onslaught of elements that held the northern landscape hostage and regulated constant numbers of casualties. But then, again, global powers only step in when there is an imminent drought of resources that threaten the stability of interests. It is an infuriating truth that rarely deviates from the norm.

Current Secretary of State, John Kerry paid a visit to Nigeria recently to pass on the hopes of a well-implemented election season while stressing the importance of adhering to the instituted timetable. This was his attempt at conjuring a diplomatic stance geared at facilitating the interests of exploitative measures aimed at securing relations that are fractioned at best. The objective of Boko Haram and similar sects that indulge in menacingly wrecking havoc is to disable the machinery responsible for the functioning forces of inhabitants who rely on a structural code for their survival. Unfortunately Nigeria is incapable of generating the level of tactical fare needed to resolve intrusive agents that pose a dangerous threat.

#BringBackOurGirls was a casual formal lesson in the woeful sentiment of a country that needed social media intervention to convey the mounting atrocities that had become an acceptable constant. President Goodluck Jonathan who is currently seeking a second term inherited the circus of terror from his predecessor Umaru Yar’Adua and instead of keenly advocating the need for law and order, surrendered to the premise of a gang that depended on his crippling inconsistencies for its prominence and subsequent entrée into a rewardingly expanded platform.

Now that the elections have moved from Feb. 14 to March 28, the stakes are even higher given the misguided expectations. There is a multinational effort that has been configured to form a radical resistance against Boko Haram but even those efforts are suspiciously orchestrated due to the auspicious timing given the fact that thousands of lives have been sacrificially brutalized for more than ix years with little or no mandated interference. The result of this accommodated insurgence has now aligned Nigeria’s temperament in folds of bipolar tendencies as the longstanding virus that remains uncured diffuses the urgent call for change.

Abubakar Shekau – Boko Haram’s wildly imaginative leader has successfully led his troops through a regime that has been vastly sustainable thanks to the worldwide status they have been granted through the furnishings of media outlets that dutifully echo each step ventured. Undefeated and programmed for limitless domination, Boko Haram is the reason why Nigeria is at a standstill. President Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari will perform their wooing dance to entice their constituents but the truth is that Nigeria is beyond the day of reckoning. And as the days go by – the fate of numerous innocents will be cemented in the dust of time.

Until then…we will wait.