Shekau's focus on the “near enemy” is influenced by a clear ethnic agenda within Nigeria; however, the other three often unheard of leaders within Boko Haram, Khalid al-Barnawi, Mamman Nur and Adam Kambar, have much larger goals in mind: a transnational agenda.This rivarly between former high level members loyal to Yusuf with more transnational goals and Shekau's need for absolute dominance, maybe the source of the recent rumors that Boko Haram is fracturing from within.