The presiding pastor of Citadel Global Church, Tunde Bakare,
has said that the state of the nation does not represent the President, Muhammadu Buhari whom he used to know.
He said this in a statement titled ‘The Conspicuous
Handwriting on the Wall,’ where he recalled how he was invited to partner with
Buhari as his vice in the presidential election of 2011.
He said, “After initial hesitation, my eventual acceptance was upon the assurance that, amongst other deliverables, our administration would commit to re-engineering Nigeria’s governmental structure with a view to guaranteeing the security & prosperity of our nation & her people.
“After a vigorous campaign, GMB gave a deeply emotional
public statement at a press conference on April 13, 2011 – “I am in this solely
for the love of my country and concern for its destiny and the fate of its people.”
The clergyman said he was among those who prevailed on
Buhari not to quit his quest to become president after his attempt in 2011
failed.
“Some of us prevailed on General Muhammadu Buhari not to
quit the stage but to take back his words and form a coalition of the best of
the North and the best of the South to salvage our nation.
”I must admit that I played a critical role in that mission. God had shown me in a vision that GMB still had a role to play in stabilising Nigeria.
“I, therefore, facilitated a meeting in the United Kingdom
between him and some of our CPC leaders with a view to forming a coalition
between CPC and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) that could save Nigeria from
impending disaster,” he said.
He continued, “As I told the President in some of those
engagements, his success is my success, and his failure is my failure. It is
why I remain committed to seeing him succeed.
“I am compelled to speak out because the state of the nation does not represent the Buhari I knew when we took that solemn journey towards rebuilding Nigeria.
“I am compelled to cry out because of the intent of the
president as contained in his tribute dated October 14, 2019 in honour of my
65th birthday PMB wrote to me: “We have shared ideas on how to engender a
better country and formed a tag team for political power. May the ideas
germinate fully, proliferate and give us the country of our dreams.
“The purpose of this address is to present the facts of this
diagnosis and point a way out of our current crisis even as we approach a
critical juncture in the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.”
On the rising insecurity, Bakare said, “Not even the
President’s controversial shoot-on-sight order for illegal bearers of AK-47
guns has proved sufficient to abate these attacks.”
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