Boko Haram

====Claims of defeat====
The [[2015 Nigerian general election|March 2015 general election]] was won by Buhari, who had vowed to remove inefficiency and corruption in the military.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nigeria Opposition Leader Vows to Improve Security|url=http://www.voanews.com/a/nigeria-opposition-leader-vows-to-improve-security/2557090.html|access-date=7 January 2017|work=[[VOA]]|date=12 December 2014}}</ref> On 9 September 2015, the Director of Information at the Defence Headquarters, Colonel Rabe Abubakar announced that all known Boko Haram camps and cells had been destroyed, and that the group was so weakened that they could no longer hold any territory:
{{blockquote|These terrorists have been subdued, even if they are adopting other means and as they are re-strategising, we are also doing the same and pre-empting them. We have coordinated the air and ground assaults to make sure that these terrorists' hideouts are completely decimated. As I am speaking to you, all the terrorists' camps have completely been wiped out. So right now they are completely in disarray, have no command and control of where to plan. We have even taken over their camps that most of them abandoned and are attempting to blend into towns and communities. We have also apprehended some of them and very soon innocent Nigerians can move back to their communities. We are making a lot of headway, so people should know that Boko Haram is no longer strong enough to hold grounds. Very soon this issue of whether they are in control of any territory in Nigeria or not will come to the open. I am assuring you that they will never again recapture the territory taken from them because what is happening right now with the deployment of troops, equipment and morale will ensure that.<ref name=defeat/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/dhq-nigerian-troops-have-destroyed-all-boko-haram-camps/219851/ |title=DHQ: Nigerian Troops Have Destroyed All Boko Haram Camps |work=This Day Live |date=10 September 2015 |access-date=10 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150913004000/http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/dhq-nigerian-troops-have-destroyed-all-boko-haram-camps/219851 |archive-date=13 September 2015}}</ref>}}

Buhari later reiterated in December that Boko Haram was "technically defeated"<ref name=BBCDefeated>{{cite news|title=Nigeria Boko Haram: Militants 'technically defeated' – Buhari|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-35173618|access-date=24 December 2015|work=[[BBC News]]|date=24 December 2015}}</ref> and declared in December 2016 that the group had been entirely ousted from its last stronghold of Sambisa Forest.<ref>{{cite news|title=Boko Haram 'crushed' by Nigerian army in final forest stronghold|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/boko-haram-nigerian-army-sambisa-forest-a7494176.html|access-date=26 December 2016|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=24 December 2016}}</ref>