John Kerry in Nigeria to meet with Jonathan and Buhari

                      

The US Secretary of State John Kerry touched down on Lagos on Sunday to have meeting with the 2 major presidential candidate. He first had meeting with President Jonathan Goodluck of the PDP and later on a different location met the APC presidential candidate Ibrahim Buhari. The main reason of John Kerry's visit to Nigeria is to appeal to Jonathan and Buhari to instruct their supporters to restrain from violence in the election coming on 14th February 2015.
Also discussed is the attacks of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram.  In a report last week, the Virginia-based Center for Naval Analyses, a federally funded research corporation, called the group a locally focused insurgency largely fueled by bad government.
“The conflict is being sustained by masses of unemployed youth who are susceptible to Boko Haram recruitment, an alienated and frightened northern population that refuses to cooperate with state security forces, and a governance vacuum that has allowed the emergence of militant sanctuaries in the northeast,” the report said.
“The conflict is also being perpetuated by the Nigerian government, which has employed a heavy-handed, overwhelmingly (military) approach to dealing with the group and has paid little attention to the underlying contextual realities and root causes of the conflict,” the report said. That view comports with the assessment of the U.S. intelligence agencies.