Pastor Tunde Bakare, who is the head of Dominion Hall Citadel Global, formerly Latter Rain Assembly, has berated some Yoruba persons who he said have made it their business to disparage APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu over his ancestry.
The Pastor said such people are demonising and scheming against Tinubu because of his past. Like Tinubu, Bakare is known to be interested in the future leadership of Nigeria.
He stated this in an undated video making the rounds while weighing in on the controversy that the two-term Lagos State Governor is an indigene of Osun State and not Lagos that he has been claiming.
The vocal Pastor Tunde Bakare said that the “rancorous noise characterised by bitterness” that the ex-governor’s traducers have been making cannot subtract from the man that Tinubu is.
“I have a word for those Yoruba rancorous elements, noisemakers who have not achieved as much as Asiwaju had achieved but they are always querying and worrying themselves about his ancestry.
“His traducers are quick to tell you that he is from Iragbiji or that he is not from Lagos State, as if that will resolve the issues that we face today.
“Please hear me loud and clear. Knowing the name of Asiwaju’s biological mother and father or his place of birth cannot put food on the table of the hungry or create jobs for the unemployed and unemployable,” Bakare said.
“Stop all this nonsense about ancestry. You will kill your heroes and those who can deliver you and nothing will happen. All of these sakabula leaders, they don’t have machine guns.
By sakabula, I mean dane guns. I am not a friend of anybody. Ojo o b’enikan sota, eni eji ri leji pa. (I am like the rain that has no enemy, thus drenching whoever it encounters.)”.
Bakare noted that some Yoruba elders were plotting some alternative political re-engineering which, he argued, would not work without Tinubu.
According to him, the former Governor of Lagos State’s structure will swallow such because he had worked ahead.
Pastor Tunde Bakare added, “Stop plotting, scheming against someone. He has his past, you have yours. Even Pope has a past. Don’t let me expose your men of God o, because they all have a past.
And before I expose them I should look inward too, because I have my past and you too do. If you have no past, you have no future.”
“I will defend the right of even my enemy when they have that right. Has he done something with power? Yes. Has he done all things right? No, but he did his best. You can’t give more than what you have.
Therefore, let’s sit around the table and say: These are the challenges. Do you know how long ago I told the Yoruba elders to do this? Over 10 years ago. They are now going around. Milling around him. We are going to fix this country, and nobody has the monopoly of wisdom to do it.”
“I know what I am saying. Today we create a lot of backlash on social media. Call me names. I know my names. Say what you like about me, but let’s fix it.”
According to Bakare, there were many who even did evils as recorded by the Bible, whom God used because they turned around. He gave their examples, including David.
“He said, ‘Oh, you don’t know what Asiwaju has done? Oh, he is making money from taxation. Why don’t you make yours? If the system allows it, and he exploited that system to his own advantage.”
The pastor said that in spite of the circumstances of Tinubu’s birth, he delivered “Lagos and the whole of the South-West states from the on-slaught of the PDP between 1999 and 2007.
He added that without the cooperation and political dexterity of Tinubu, APC’s victory in the 2015 and 2019 polls would have been impossible.
Bakare said that while he was not Tinubu’s “brand manager” and did not endorse everything about the man, the APC National Leader deserved applause for his achievements despite the challenges life threw at him.
He said he doubted if many Tinubu’s traducers could have faced the same challenges as the man and survived.
Tinubu is one of the most influential and controversial politicians in the current era. Although he emerged from the private sector, he moved relatively fast on the political ladder, arguably helped by the prominent role he played during the June 12 struggles.
Watch video below:
Pastor @T_Bakare warns Yoruba leaders to stop demonizing and scheming against Asiwaju @AsiwajuTinubu because of his past. pic.twitter.com/HZcOT3ORfH
— Jomog (@oguntayoomobola) December 23, 2020
