Buhari's Boko Haram deadline: Miracle can still happen ---PDP

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(Nigeria) With about four  days to the end of the December deadline to the military to end the Boko Haram insurgency by President Muhammadu Buhari, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Monday, said miracles could still happen.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh said, while reacting to the deadline, against the backdrop of the two female suicide bombers, who struck at a market in of Adamawa State on Monday, in which about 30  were killed, said "Mracles can still happen. We believe the government will accomplish it before  December 31, considering the confidence of the Minister of Information (Lia Mohammed) and Mr President (Buhari)."
It will be recalled that Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck also in Maiduguri, Borno State, for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said.
No fewer than 50 people were killed and the death toll could go higher.

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