Senior Pastor of the Citadel Global Church, formally Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has been engaged in a war of words with former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, over the former’s defense of the former governor of Lagos, Bola Tinubu. Both are disagreeing on Bakare’s Sunday Sermon where he rendered encomiums on Tinubu, asking those envious of Tinubu aspiring for the presidency in 2023 to jettison such talks and busy themselves with things that can add value to their lives.
Bakare has the record of using the pulpit for political ribald, attracting flacks from critics on the purpose of politicizing the pulpit.
On Tuesday, Femi Fani-Kayode, who is known not to be a fan of Tinubu, released an article titled:”Who is squeezing Bakare’s balls?” which was a rejoinder to Bakare’s sermon, accusing Bakare of committing blunder on the Tinubu discourse.
Describing Bakare’s position as fishy, Fani kayode wondered whether hjis sudden position is not connected with an “unsavory event which allegedly took place in 1990 in the last of the pastor was about to be exposed by the Tinubu camp”. He also alleged the possible connection to a bank that has changed management hands. He frowned on Bakare trying to impose Tinubu on those that may not like him.
Neither Tinubu nor his aides have commented on the issue.
Tunde Bakare
In a swift reaction, Tunde Bakare, Tuesday, dared the former Aviation Minister to bring to the public domain his alleged ugly past of 1990.
Bakare addressed a letter to an Afenifere Chieftain, Yinka Odumakin, telling him to ask Fani-Kayode to reveal the shady bank deals he alluded to. Failure to do this will amount to deliberate falsehood against him, Bakare said.
“Good morning Yinka. Hope you are much better. I have just read Femi Fani-Kayode’s piece where he quoted you and others”’, Bakare wrote to Odumakin.
“As he described you affectionately as his brother in the piece, I believe you are either companions or must be in the same league or camp.
“I have only one appeal to make through you to him: Tell him to expose my supposed “ugly past of 1990″ he must know about and the shady deals involving some bank that just changed hands that involved me in any shape or manner.”
Bola Tinubu
“If Femi does not do so as soon as possible then he has published deliberate falsehood about me. I will await this publication soonest.
“For the sake of Femi’s mother who I ministered Christ to in their Papa’s home while Femi himself was still in the grip of Satan, I will hold my peace for now.”
“My last word to you and to the likes of Femi is that 10,000 times 10,000 of Tinubu or anyone for that matter has nothing on me to make me say the words I spoke for, and against him either in the past or now.”
“No one in Nigeria or elsewhere in the world can blackmail me over anything done in the past to anyone or with anyone. If you or he or any other person know of any shady deal that I have done with any individual, corporation, or government, please feel free to publish it.”
