Pastor Tunde Bakare, founder of Citadel Global Community Church, says the emergence of President Bola Tinubu was backed by divine providence.
Bakare, who played a role in the formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ruled out the possibility of joining the African Democratic Congress (ADC), insisting he cannot abandon a party he helped establish.
“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 said.
The cleric spoke on Saturday at the maiden edition of the Citadel School of Governance Dialogue Series, tagged Nigeria at 65: Historical Reflections, Futuristic Projection in Lagos.
Bakare disclosed that he has come under pressure from political stakeholders, including a former governor and a minister from the south-west, to join 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,” he said.
He added that one of his younger political associates, who benefited from holding key offices in the APC, urged him to lend his influence to the ADC.
Bakare, however, dismissed the idea.
“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 said.
The article was originally published on Politics Nigeria.
