Presiding Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has finally congratulated Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the winner of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential primary,
Pastor Bakare said he got zero votes at the APC primary due to his refusal to compromise on his values. He explained that he refused to play certain kinds of politics; hence he got zero votes.Bakare disclosed this while addressing his members on the topic “A New Nigeria is possible.” Bakare who had in 2019 said God told him he would succeed President Mohammadu Buhari, expressed gratitude to his family and supporters for standing by him, reiterating that he wears his zero vote with confidence.
According to him, he remains fulfilled despite the zero vote because he did not compromise his values tailored towards a new Nigeria.
He said the emergence of Tinubu as the party’s candidate is a testament to his “significant contribution to the course of the South West and his labour towards the formation and establishment of the APC.”
Bakare while saying he remains “audaciously confident” that a new Nigeria is possible prayed God to bless the country with a leader that is not in love with money but justice and a leader not in love with publicity but humanity.”
“I therefore send best wishes to him as he proceeds to the campaign train towards the 2023 general elections,” he said.
Alongside Bakare, a businessman, Tein Jack-Rich, a former Minister, Ikeobasi Mokelu, and an incumbent Senator, Rochas Okorocha, scored zero vote during the Presidential Primaries of the APC.
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