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United Action for Democracy condemns the dastardly bombings in suburbs of Abuja on Friday by Boko Haram, and sympathises with family members of the scores of poor people whose lives were cut short in their prime in these attacks. We must however consider this as a clarion call for thinking out of the box. The sloganeering and unsubstantiated claims of the ruling All Progressives Congress that such cowardly acts will not stop the sect’s defeat appear hollow and annoying, considering its posturing on the Boko Haram insurgency, when it was an opposition party. Over 1,200 Nigerians have been killed by Boko Haram since APC came to power. There is little basis for confidence that many more will not face a similar fate. To present the sect’s tactics of urban guerrilla warfare as something new is equally being disingenuous. On the contrary, this was the norm for Boko Haram until mid-2014 when it was inspired by the territorial expansion of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. And indeed, most of