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Punch Newspapers reports that Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, has said that he will never refer to Bola Tinubu as his president.
The politician and cleric said that a number of electoral frauds occurred during the 2023 elections and that the Independent National Electoral Commission messed up the campaigning process during a webinar on Saturday.
After giving his lecture on the Zoom program titled “Building the New Nigeria: The Role of the Diaspora,” which was put on by the PTB4Nigeria In Diaspora Group, he made this statement in response to a question.
Over 200 people attended the meeting, which got underway at 7 o’clock and was covered by our correspondent.
He claimed during an earlier segment of the broadcast that the 2023 elections were not credible.
He laughed and responded that he would say what he said to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), last week, when asked if he would be pleased to work for the government as a Minister of Diaspora Engagements.
He claimed that he informed Buhari that he sometimes referred to him as the President of Nigeria and other times as “My President.”
“Last Wednesday, I was at the Glass House where he (Buhari) has been restricted now that the main house is being renovated,” Bakare recalled. I claimed to have fulfilled your request. I want you to be aware that despite the fact that you came to power on the wings of integrity and incorruptibility, that value is now being passed to someone else.
Before this situation is resolved out, he declared, “I will address Asiwaju (Tinubu) as a President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, but I will never call him my president, in any public lecture anywhere.”
He said that since he didn’t vote, he couldn’t be said to have lost the election.
In the June 2022 All Progressives Congress presidential primaries, where nomination forms were sold for N100 million, Bakare participated but received zero votes.
He briefly touched on this, saying, “There is no guilt in what we have done. I participated in the primary, and there were hundreds (of others) who participated simply by stepping down. Within seven minutes, we confronted the powers that be.