Founder and General Overseer of Citadel Global Community
Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has denied stating President Muhammadu Buhari has
failed Nigerians.
Bakare had in an Instagram live interview with the Publisher
of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, on Tuesday, reportedly said the President had
disappointed Nigerians.
But speaking on Arise TV on Thursday, the clergyman
dismissed the reports, noting that media outlets quoted him wrongly.
He said: “The truth of the matter is, that was an instagram
live interview that lasted for over 2 hours and the audio and the video will be
available, I’m sure the publisher of Ovation Media, Bashorun Dele Momodu, can
make that available to the public.
“Those headlines in the newspapers were the creation of the
newspapers themselves, those were not the exact words I used. I said, if I
remember correctly, that the coming of President Buhari into power in 2015 was
a breath of fresh air to so many people.
“But in the midst of all competing demands, the conflicts
and everything that happened, the expectations they had; not all of them would
have been met. And, therefore, Nigerians are entitled to say they are
disappointed.
“I did not use the words ‘Buhari has disappointed
Nigerians’. I will not ask the papers not to sell their papers using any
headline. Sometimes they make their own deduction from what was spoken but
those words were not exactly or expressly spoken by me.
“I choose to be moderate in all that I say. Except I have
concrete facts, I do not just talk. But are Nigerians disappointed? It’s
everywhere, every day. You see it in the news. When expectations are not met,
people will express their frustrations. It is natural and normal.
“But that does not mean this administration has not done
anything good at all and, therefore, should be consigned to the dustbin of
history as a big disappointment. These were not my words, those were what the
papers chose to use.”
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