The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has revealed that he will never regard Bola Tinubu as his president.
To Bakare, President-elect Bola Tinubu lacks the integrity and incorruptibility of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The cleric and politician said this during a webinar on Saturday.
Building The New Nigeria
Bakare delivered a speech on a Zoom programme entitled ‘Building the New Nigeria: The Role of the Diaspora’.
His speech was followed by a Question & Answer session.
While responding to a question Bakare said the Independent National Electoral Commission made a mess of the electioneering process.
To him, the 2023 elections were below acceptable standards.
On if he would be happy to work for the new government as a Minister of Diaspora Engagements, Pastor Bakare said he would say what he said to President Buhari last week.
My President
He said he told Buhari that sometimes he called him President of Nigeria, and other times, he called him “My President”.
“Last Wednesday, I was at the Glass House where he (Buhari) has been restricted now because the main house is being renovated.
“I said I have done that for you.
“I want you to know that because of the circumstances of your flying into power on the wings of integrity and incorruptibility, but you’re now passing onto someone who does not have that value.
“Any public lecture anywhere, before this mess is cleared off, I will address Asiwaju (Tinubu) as a President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“I will never call him my president.
Badge Of Zero
“I participated in the primary, and there were hundreds (of persons) who participated only by stepping down, so there is no shame in what we have done. We spoke truth to power.
“I wasn’t there when they voted, I wasn’t there when they scored (me) zero, but we won that badge of zero and badge of honour.”
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He said if he were called to be a minister under the incoming government, there would be conditions to it, “but I am not desperate to be a minister, not at all.
“I was offered before, but I turned it down. My life is not just to take photographs with the president and shake hands.
“But we will do if it will benefit even one citizen”.
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Bakare, polled zero votes in the All Progressives Congress presidential primary in June 2022.
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