Our reporter/ The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Saturday said he will never call Bola Tinubu, his president.
The outspoken cleric who stated this during a webinar organised by the PTB4Nigeria In Diaspora Group, alleged that a series of malpractices occurred during the 2023 elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, he said made a mess of the electioneering process making the exercise below acceptable standards.
“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, Bakare responded when asked if he would work with the new government.
“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.”
Bakare participated in the All Progressives Congress presidential primary in June 2022 but polled no single vote.
Briefly touching this, he 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, adding that this was because some defeats were more triumphant than victories.
Asked if he will consider serving as a minister under the new government, he said, 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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