A new video released by the Boko Haram terrorist group shows Abu Shekau, the group’s leader declaring that the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, is the group’s target and that his anger against Sanusi is because he called on the people of Kano as well as the northern part of the country to begin to arm themselves against insurgents.
Shortly after the Governor-of-Central-Bank-turned Emir made the call on the people to begin to defend themselves, Boko Haram attacked the Central Mosque where Sanusi worships. Though over 100 people died in the attack, Sanusi was in Saudi Arabia.
Shekau, in a 19-minute video, said as far as he was concerned, Emir Sanusi is not a true Muslim, saying he could be killed at the slightest opportunity.
He however did not state if his boys attacked the Mosque, but maintained that all fake Muslims, who do not believe in the ideology of the group just like Sanusi, would be dealt with.
Shekau said he still had brothers who believed in him and the religion of Allah, “not the religion of democracy, not that of western education, those who believed in the religion of the Quran not that of the constitution and not religion of the Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Jonathan, Obasanjo, Atiku, Babangida, Obama, Bush, Clinton, but the religion of Allah.
“Now listen to me Emir of Kano. I am talking to you and only you because of your recent utterances. Let me inform you now that you are late, you should know that you are only but the King of Kano, King of Central Bank, King of money, you are only Sanusi Lamido,” Shekau said.
“Our own government is defined as government of the Allah by the Allah and for the Allah not as you define your own government as the government of the people by the people and for the people.
“Emir of Kano Sanusi you are late, that our triumph is just for a period of time so you said. Even your predecessors who are renowned idol worshipers in Islamic history like ‘Abujahal’ could not succeed fighting Islam.
“Yes you can say that our success is for a period of time, because you are a king of Bank and a loyal citizen of his country.
“Because you are made the Emir of Kano that is why you got angry and was calling on the Vigilante groups and hunters to attack us. Let me tell you that the hunters and the vigilante groups will fail and you will also fail.”
He condemned Izala, Tijjaniyya, Qadiriyya and Shiite Islamic groups as all pagans who his team would continue to attack and kill just as he condemned Saudi Arabia for denying the Boko Haram.