Pastor Bakare Mocks APC Presidential Candidate’s Identity, Credentials, Honour, Credibility

By Gideon Njoku

Can someone tell these people that scoring zero in a Primary election with one’s true identity and integrity as well as having original credentials from well-known  schools: Primary, Secondary, Colleges and University, within and outside of this nation, is a verifiable badge of honour,  absolutely legit and unquestionable

Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Citadel Global Community Church, has told the Media handlers of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that though he scored zero votes at the Party’s Presidential Primary, he came out smelling of roses, and more triumphant than their Candidate who came out victorious.

Bakare, a Presidential aspirant under the APC, who had earlier, before the Primary, told his congregation that God had ordained him as the next Nigerian President after Buhari,  surprisingly scored zero – meaning that he did not even vote for himself, and had no single supporter as a delegate.

Bakare spoke in reaction to an attack directed at him by the Presidential Candidate’s Media handlers.

The Pastor had looked for their trouble when, during an address to his congregation on Sunday, asked Nigerians not to vote for those who say the Presidential seat is their entitlement.

Tinubu is the only candidate who claimed the seat as his entitlement. “It is my turn”,  he said, during his campaign for delegates in Abeokuta. But Bakere remembering Tinubu’s claim, said: “It is not their turn. It is the turn of Nigerians who have been frustrated by succeeding Governments.”

Stung by Bakare’s admonition to Nigerians, Tinubu’s Media handlers, who felt that the Pastor was referring to their Candidate pounced on him.

They called him a political paperweight who deserves no attention, and mocked him for scoring zero votes at the Presidential Primary.

“A man who got zero votes at primary election deserves no serious attention. He is a political paperweight whose utterances should not be given a serious thought”, they said in a statement.

In response to the Media attack on him, which called him a paperweight, Pastor Bakare questioned Tinubu’s honour and credibility and identity.

He said: “Why are they then giving any thought to what I said? May be their alleged “paper weight” is too heavy for them to carry.

“Can someone tell these people that scoring zero in a primary election with one’s true identity and integrity intact as well having original credentials from well-known schools: Primary, Secondary, colleges and University within and outside of this nation is a veritable badge of honor, absolutely legit and unquestionable.

“Please tell them that in the words of Michel De Montaigne: “There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”

“One of the Special Advisers that I thought had some semblance of nobility had to utter outright lies and falsehoods to satisfy his paymaster.

“He said that I did a video asking members of our Church to vote for their candidate and then turn around to ask them not to vote for him. Unfortunately, there is no such video containing such falsehood.

“The abridged video these people are sending around is from a message preached here (Citadel Global Community Church) in 2020 with the title: “An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.”

“I made it clear in the video that I did not endorse their candidate’s lifestyle, business or type of politics.

In the said video, I never asked our members to vote or not vote for their candidate or any other candidate.

“By the way, our members are not zombies. They, by the grace of God, have their own minds and will decide who to vote for on the Election Day.

“As for those whose stock in trade is lying against others and fabricating stories that are not true about them, our strong consolation is that their DNA and final destination is spelt out in the Bible. See Psalm 58:3-8.

“The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies…”

“Rest assured, I will take the vicious attacks of these political merchants in my stride, because I know that according to Voltaire: “Many are destined to reason wrongly, others not to reason at all, and some to persecute those who do reason.”