Chapter Twenty One

The news of Alhaji Ciroma’s victory at the polls, hit Shekau like a bomb. He summoned an emergency meeting as soon as the news was confirmed over the television. He knew, even though Ciroma was a Muslim, he was equally a no-nonsense person. He enjoined all his men to be alert to prevent losing captured territories to the Nigerian forces. True to his predictions, checking the menace of the Boko Haram sect in the North was one of the cardinal objectives of the Ciroma administration as contained in his maiden broadcast to the nation. Shekau and his key officials had listened to the broadcast with rapt attention smiling mirthlessly.