“The Last Time I Knew About ADC Is About The Plane Which Crashed” – Pastor Bakare On Why He Will Not Defect To ADC

By Akinwale Kasali

Pastor Tunde Bakare, founder of Citadel Global Community Church, and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has revealed he is under pressure to join opposition coalition Party, African Democratic  Congress, ADC.

The 2023 Presidential Aspirant of the APC, who was also late President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in 2011, stated that the pressure from political stakeholders to join the ADC has been overwhelming.

The Clergyman spoke on Saturday at the maiden edition of the Citadel School of Governance Dialogue Series tagged ‘Nigeria at 65: Historical Reflections, Futuristic Projection’ in Oregun, Lagos.

He, however, ruled out the possibility of joining the Party.

According to him, several political figures, including a former governor and Minister from the South-West, had urged him to align with the ADC.

“There has been a lot of pressure on me from who is who to join ADC. They come to my home. Even while I was abroad, the hierarchy of that party kept calling, saying they needed my voice,” Bakare said.

One of his younger political associates, he disclosed,  who benefited from holding key offices in the APC, even urged him to lend his influence to the ADC.

Bakare, however, dismissed the idea, saying, “I am not going to take part in ADC. The last time I knew about ADC was about a plane that crashed. I wish them well, because we need a robust opposition. But you don’t birth a child called APC and then try to kill it yourself. We are not going to have another Awolowo–Akintola crisis in the South-West,” he stated.

He stressed: “If God wants to remove ‘emilokan,’ He knows how to do it. You can’t get the kind of thing Tinubu has brought without God’s support,” he added.