Tunde Bakare, the serving overseer of the Citadel Global
Community Church, says there is “gross failure” in the administration of
President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television, on
Tuesday, Bakare said this is not the Nigeria he had envisioned.
The former vice-presidential candidate of the Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) said the country is at the precipice and that many
things currently happening in the country have not been seen before, adding
that Nigeria has a way of bouncing back.
“This is not the Nigeria we envisioned not only as young
people but in recent past. It is as if we are again at the precipice but
Nigeria has a way of bouncing back; we are full of hope that God Almighty will
help us. We are in a very perplexing situation as a nation. Many things that we
didn’t see before are happening now. Even the president himself said so that
nothing worries or bothers him like what is happening in the north-east,
especially the banditry and kidnapping,” he said.
Asked if he is surprised by the state of the nation
considering the role he played in the emergence of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) to power, Bakare said he is “terribly shocked”, adding that
Nigerians, including himself, were hopeful about the change promised by the
APC.
“Surprise will be a good thing for me. I’m not surprised.
I’m terribly shocked about the things that are happening. I never envisaged
them,” he said.
Asked to assess Buhari’s administration in the past six
years, the cleric made an analogy of a six-year-old child who is still
crawling, noting that the country needs “political medicare” to resolve its
myriad of problems.
“A six-year-old child
that is still crawling has problems. You want to examine or call the doctors to
come in or a pediatrician, you say that this child was given birth to six years
ago but it is crawling, just moving on its buttocks, not running, not walking,
something is wrong. If we are going to assess, we need a serious political
medicare. There is no problem that is devoid of solutions,” he said.
Asked if Buhari’s administration is a failure, Bakare said
there is “gross failure” in the administration and that it is possible to fail
forward in order to resolve the country’s problems.
“I like to use my own words. Failure will look, ‘like try
again’, you can still do something with it. I once failed an examination in
mathematics. In 1973, I sat for exam and I got what we called inverted six,
which is nine in mathematics but I met a friend of mine, who is late now, Ahmed
Abebefe, who was a genius in mathematics in secondary school but his English
was terrible. I was very good in English… Yes, there is gross failure, it is
apparent to everyone but you can fail forward,” he said.
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