ABUJA, Nigeria—A series of terror attacks near Nigeria’s seat of power has embarrassed officials and threatened to disrupt the country’s general elections in 2023.
Three prominent incidents near the capital Abuja on July 5 shocked President Muhammadu Buhari and exposed his administration’s failure to end terrorism during his seven years in power.
In 2015, the former army general claimed Islamist terrorists besieging the country’s northeast had been “technically defeated.”
But in a brazen show of power, a large band of terrorists on July 5 attacked a prominent prison 29 miles from the country’s presidential house in Abuja.
More than 800 inmates, including Boko Haram and ISIS fighters, escaped in the evening attack at the medium correctional center in Kuje, according to officials….