The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and convener, Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare has said that he does not belong to any political party, adding that he now belongs to God.
Bakare said this when asked which of the political parties he belongs to at a press conference held in his church recently.
He said: “I have never had any political party in my life. I belong to God. I sat down at home when the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC called and I accepted because I believed that there is still one who will rescue the country.
“Now, I don’t have any political ambition. I’m now doing what I love to do most. Politics can only take away from me,” he said.
Bakare stated that former President Olusegun Obasanjo imposed a sickly Umar Musa Yar’Adua and a clueless President Goodluck Jonathan on Nigerians in order to avenge the loss of his third term ambition.
The convener of the SNG added that the country lost the chance of starting all over again and be a better nation when Obasanjo assumed office in 1999.
Obasanjo, he said, derailed Nigeria at the critical juncture of her life.
“In 1999, Nigerians were full of enthusiasm as they watched the military return to barracks. We were excited because it was the dawn of a new beginning. We wanted a different and better country with a defined national character and with a possibility to create a sense of pride.
“We lost that chance when former President Olusegun Obasanjo assumed office. Today, he conveniently assumes the stance of a statesman. He goes up and down telling everybody Nigeria will go up in flames; that the man he planted in power has allowed corruption to go unchecked under his clueless watch.
“What he expediently forgets is his role in facilitating our arrival at the sticky junction we presently find ourselves,” he said.
Pastor Bakare said that “Obasanjo squandered the country’s hope of returning to glory and took it to a path of corruption, prebendal, primordial sentiments and even administrative bullying.”
He laments the countless corrupt practices that have found a home in Nigeria, adding that “they are all around us and as clear as a sun-filled sky.
“From infrastructure deficits to a social collapse; from lack of ambition to a collective sense of despondency, to lackadaisical attitude and general inurement that make us all look away from even the most outrageously corrupt acts, we are no longer strangers to the results of corruption, even though it is doubtful if we fully comprehend its entire effects on our country in a long time to come.
“Beyond the tangible and sublime effects, corruption has demolished our cultural and symbolic capital such that whenever we are ranked alongside other countries, Nigeria always manages to retain her space, almost incontestably, at the nethermost rung of the ladder.
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You are a very confused man where do you belong, in the vineyard of our Lord or the alter of politics? You must for once preached to you members not to speak evil of others people especially their leaders. Today listen to your own comments. Why have you Bakare chosen to ridicle the exalted office of God's minister?
ReplyDeletePastor Bakare is gradually losing focus , both spiritually and politically. He needs serious deliverance,
ReplyDeleteIn divine order Political leaders are subservient to spiritual leaders don't be so foolhardily blindfolded by sentiment and inappropriate application of the scripture to lose the sight that national leaders are subject to spiritual leaders as such they are not superior to their rebuke, correction and reference to their wrong doings. If a man of God who because of zeal for the transformation of his country decided to offer himself for such a desired change but finds out that such a step is a spiritual aberration is not an indication of the loss of focus but a palpable exhibition of humility like the prodigal son. You cannot say you have not tried one or two things in the past in which you have failed woefully but you didn't give up but tried again.
ReplyDeleteForever you will not see beyond your nose for insalting man of God. Who has distinguished himself from others who preaches wealth and not how to tell the truth. Shame on you, From your speach we know where you belong to.You are a member of People Deceived People.
ReplyDeleteGOOD TALK ANONYMOUS 3. I AM A PASTOR WHO BELIEVES IN POLITICS, TALK IT BUT DON'T HAVE A POLITICAL PARTY. A NIGERIAN PASTOR BROUGHT A POSITIVE CHANGE IN FAR AWAY UKRAINE. THEY HAVE TO FRONT THEIR OWN POLITICAL PARTY ETC BEFORE THE DESIRED CHANGE COULD BEGIN. NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS ARE TOO HEAVENLY CONSCIOUSE THAT THEY HAVE REMAINED EARTHLY USELESS. EVEN GOD WILL BE ANGRY WITH THEM CUZ THEY WERE SUPOOSED TO BE THE LIGHT FOR THE WORLD AND NOT FOR HEAVEN. MANY BAKARE'S ARE NEEDED NOT JUST FOR HIS FIRCENESS BUT THOSE WHO WILL USE EVERYTHING AT THEIR DISPOSAL TO ADDRESS NATIONAL ISSUES. WHY TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO LEAVE IN HEAVEN WHEN THEY HAVE NOT BEEN TAUGHT ON HOW TO LEAVE AT THEIR TEMPORARY BASE. MAY GOD RAISE US MORE BAKARE'S WHO WILL BE NATIONALY CONCERNED. A NEW NIGERIA IS POSSIBLE. IT WILL SURELY EMERGE.
ReplyDeletePastor Bakare is quite in order. It took the pastorial and spiritual fervour of Rev. King to earn for American blacks what Obama is today. Nigeria needs more Bakares. The truth shall set you free
ReplyDeleteOne thing people should is this, is all these politicians are dirty in their games, Bakare is not just an ordinary man but a man of God, who will not compromise his faith because of earthly things, he has seen the evil and dirty things they do therefore, he cannot join them, true christians' have integrity not with hand stain with blood, i respet Pastor Bakare for leaving this people in their own sheet
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