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Anticipation of further violence as Nigeria begins voting for its next president is growing after a new video shows Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau threatening that the election "will not happen in peace."
The menancing message will alarm Christians from Nigeria's northern states who live in constant fear of attack from the group.
In the lead up to the elections a Nigerian pastor visited the U.K. parliament to highlight the problems Christians face in the troubled north east. Afterwards, in an exclusive interview, Pastor Daniel Awayi told World Watch Monitor about atrocities carried out on his congregation by Boko Haram.
Ahead of Nigeria's delayed Presidential election on March 28, the world's media is focused on the continued attacks by Boko Haram insurgents in the country's north-eastern states and their cross-border raids into Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
Nigeria's government has failed to stop the group taking control of large swathes of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states. The standard refrain that the insurgency will "soon be over" was repeated on March 20, when President Goodluck Jonathan assured the BBC that the Islamists would soon have no more control of any territory.