APC slams Pastor Bakare over scathing remarks against Tinubu
APC slams Pastor Bakare over scathing remarks against Tinubu
The Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress APC has reacted to the scathing remarks made against Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by the Presiding Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (formerly Latter Rain Assembly), Pastor Tunde Bakare.
APC accused Bakare ,who was one of those who slugged it out with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at last year’s Special Presidential Convention of the party, of criticizing the government without providing single solution to the numerous problems facing the country.
.Recall that Bakare had in his Sunday sermon said, “This ’emi lo kan’ politics that insists on one’s turn, even if circumstances do not align, is bad. Politics of entitlement also manifests as perennial candidacy, not with the intent to serve, but to gratify long-time personal ambitions.”
“Entitlement politics will breed an imperial presidency that is distant from the people and has no sense of responsibility or accountability to the people. Such imperial governance will slide towards dictatorship and will be intolerant of dissent,” Bakare added.
He added that no good politician seeking the votes of the people would evade public debates and also task his team members with the task of answering questions specifically directed at him.
But reacting , APC described Bakare, the party’s chieftain ,as a political paperweight whose utterances should not be given a serious thought.
“Bakare got zero votes at the convention”, said Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Director, Special Media Projects/New Media at the PCC.
Also reacting, the Special Adviser, Media, Communications and Public Affairs at the PCC, Mr Dele Alake said the cleric is a political neophyte.
“This is a man who did a video in his church asking his members to vote for Tinubu, then the next day, he does the opposite. For us, that is not a serious issue.
“With due respect to him, he is a political paperweight, a political neophyte “, said Mr Alake.
Alake also dismissed allegations that the PCC now operates a militia headed by the National Youth Leader of the Party, Mr Dayo Israel.
He said the group refers to itself as “Jagaban Vanguard” and that they merely wear costumes and not the regalia of the military.
“In Nigeria, we like titles. We have musicians who bear General, Colonel or Commander. Do we now say they are impersonating the military”, he queried?
