Tunde Bakare, the senior pastor
of Latter Rain Assembly, has disclosed he will be running for president of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Bakare while Speaking at the
crossover service inside the Church’s auditorium in Ogba, Lagos, on Monday
morning, had said God instructed him to return to politics to lead the nation
to prosperity.
“I heard the Lord say to me,
politics is not over for you, there is still one thing left for you to do; run
for president,” he was quoted as saying.
Reacting via an article entitled
Fr. Mbaka and the Voice of God by Reuben Abati, the former presidential spokesman
wonder if God now is an author of confusion, having asked Chris Okotie of the
Household of God to run for the office of the president and he failed on his
three attempts.
He wrote, “Of all the prophecies
that I have read about this year, I find two particularly interesting. The
first is the New Year Day declaration by Pastor Tunde Bakare before his
congregation at the Latter Rain Church that God had just spoken to him not to
leave politics, because he still has an assignment for him in the political arena.
“God told me to run for
President”, he announced. When? – he does not know but he tells the congregation
to pray along with him.
“When He tells me the time, you
will hear about it.” It will be recalled that Pastor Tunde Bakare was the
running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of the Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) during the 2011 Presidential election.
“His decision at the time to go
into politics was quite controversial particularly amongst his Christian
brethren who argued that a man of the cloth should not swim in the dirty and
dirtied waters of Nigerian politics. The CPC lost the Presidential election and
Pastor Bakare returned to the pulpit.
”He won’t be the first Pastor to
declare interest in the highest office in the land. Pastor “Chris Okotie of the
Household of God Church first ran for President in 2003 as a candidate of the
Justice Party. Then he ran again in 2007 and again in 2011 on the platform of
the FRESH Democratic Party. He lost on all occasions. Yet each time Pastor
Chris Okotie declared interest in the Presidential office, he always said he
had heard from God. Listening to his campaigns, he always sounded so sure that
he had indeed been anointed by God to be President. In 2015, God apparently did
not speak to Pastor Okotie because he did not bother to join the race.
“Do Pastors Okotie and Bakare,
both learned men, hear the voice of the same God? Is it possible for God to
anoint two of his servants as Nigerian President at the same time? For, indeed,
when Pastor Bakare’s critics opposed his decision to go into politics, his
stoutest defence in 2011 was that he had heard the voice of God, and that the
voice of God is superior to that of man.
“He quoted the Scriptures: Psalm
78: 70, 71; Romans 13:1. We, lesser mortals, may probably not fully understand
the ways of God and the prophetic Ministry but the clergy must resist the
temptation, unwitting temptation may be, to project God in negative light. The
doctrine is that the omniscient God, the I-am-that-I-am that we know never
plays politics with His words. He does not contradict Himself. He keeps His
promises.”
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