According to Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, President-elect Bola Tinubu lacks the integrity and incorruptibility of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The religious leader and politician claimed he would never refer to Tinubu as his president while speaking on a webinar on Saturday.
Following his address on the Zoom program titled “Building the New Nigeria: The Role of the Diaspora,” he responded in a Q&A session. Bakare emphasized that the 2023 elections fell short of acceptable norms and claimed that the Independent National Electoral Commission messed up the electioneering process.
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In response to the question of whether he would be content to serve as the incoming government’s Minister of Diaspora Engagements, Pastor Bakare said he would repeat what he told President Buhari the previous week.
He said he told Buhari that sometimes he called him President of Nigeria, and other times, he called him “My President.”
Bakare said, “Last Wednesday, I was at the Glass House where he (Buhari) has been restricted now because the main house is being renovated. I said I have done that for you. I want you to know that because of the circumstances of your flying into power on the wings of integrity and incorruptibility, but you’re now passing onto someone who does not have that value.”
He said that at “any public lecture anywhere, before this mess is cleared off, I will address Asiwaju (Tinubu) as a President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but I will never call him my president.”
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Bakare, who polled zero votes in the All Progressives Congress presidential primary in June 2022, said, “I participated in the primary, and there were hundreds (of persons) who participated only by stepping down, so there is no shame in what we have done. We spoke truth to power.
“I wasn’t there when they voted, I wasn’t there when they scored (me) zero, but we won that badge of zero and badge of honour.”
He said if he were called to be a minister under the incoming government, there would be conditions to it, “but I am not desperate to be a minister, not at all. I was offered before, but I turned it down. My life is not just to take photographs with the president and shake hands.
“But we will do if it will benefit even one citizen.”
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