Tag: Tunde Bakare

“You don’t birth APC and try to kill It” – Tunde Bakare 

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Tunde Bakare ADC

…Rejects pressure to join ADC Renowned cleric and founder of Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has revealed that he is under intense pressure from top political figures to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC) – but insists he has no intention of leaving the All Progressives Congress (APC), a party he helped to build. Speaking at the inaugural ‘Citadel School of Governance Dialogue Series’ in Lagos on Saturday, Bakare said both senior and younger political associates have been lobbying him to align with the ADC ahead of the…

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“Cocaine, forged certificate, no father, no mother, yet God made Tinubu Nigeria’s president”- Tunde Bakare

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Tunde Bakare on Tinubu

The APC politician and pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, Tunde Bakare, has said that despite Bola Tinubu’s well-documented narcotics, forged academic records, and shady identity scandals, God still made him Nigeria’s president. Bakare, in a snippet of a recent video of his sermon posted online over the weekend, said: “I said, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, with all the intellect and everything he did to be president of Nigeria, he didn’t make it. Look at his achievements and accomplishments. MKO, my God! He spent and was spent. Participated in an election.…

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Corruption, bad governance bedrock of Nigerias economic hardship -Tunde Bakare

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General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church and former APC Presidential aspirant, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has bemoaned the dire economic conditions pushing Nigerians to desperate measures, including looting warehouses to stave-off hunger. In a stirring keynote address delivered at a symposium in Abuja on Friday, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Pastor Chinedu Ezekwesili, husband of former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, Tunde Bakare, said some Nigerians are being forced to rob warehouses in order to avoid going to bed hungry. Addressing the gathering, Bakare voiced concerns over…

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2023: ‘Muslim-Muslim ticket shouldnt be an issue’ – Pastor Bakare

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The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church and former All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant, Pastor Tunde Bakare, yesterday, urged Nigerians to prioritise nation-building ahead of ethnic or religious sentiment. Bakare, however, charged fellow Christian leaders to approach the issue in question and the broader context of the 2023 elections with civility, clarity and with continued hope in the possibilities of a united Nigeria. Reacting to the decision of the APC to select Muslims as the president and vice-presidential candidates of the party, Bakare said that this is…

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2023: Osinbajo, Tunde Bakare pick APC presidential nomination forms

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The Progressive Project (TPP), an umbrella body of support groups backing Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo for president, has allegedly picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) expression of interest and nomination forms for the vice-president. Kabiru Gaya, a senator from Kano, picked the forms worth N100 million for Osinbajo at the International Conference Centre, (ICC), in Abuja. The spokesman of the vice-president, Laolu Akande, confirmed the development in a series of tweets yesterday. A passionate team of support groups and individual Nigerians from across the country have raised funds to support the…

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2023: Pastor Tunde Bakare joins race to succeed Buhari

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Popular Nigerian pastor, Tunde Bakare, at the weekend joined the growing number of people who have shown interest in succeeding Muhammadu Buhari as president in the 2023 general elections. Bakare declared his intention just as the Minister for Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, also declared that he would contest for the position. It is not about the presidential ambition of any man, Bakare said, adding that In any case, I do not have a self-generated ambition; what I do have is a vision of a New Nigeria that was birthed in me…

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2023: “Anyone who wants to lead Nigeria has to negotiate with the North” ? Tunde Bakare

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The renowned cleric, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has described the countrys Constitution as a glorified death certificate, adding that because of it, anyone who wants to lead the country has to negotiate with the North. In a published interview, Pastor Bakare said, The way our country is constituted right now, no matter who wants to lead this country. Anyone that wants to lead this country right now will have to negotiate with the North; and the North has a way of giving you the crown and holding the sceptre and if…

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82 days after he vowed not to go to Aso Villa again, Pastor Tunde Bakare visits President Buhari

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The Senior Pastor and Founder of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, yesterday afternoon visited President Muhammadu Buhari in Aso Villa. This is coming just 82 days after the cleric vowed not to visit the president again. Buhari and Bakare have been friends for years. They contested together in 2011 under the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change. The President’s Special Adviser, (Media & Publicity), Femi Adesina, posted the pictures of the duo with a caption that read: President Buhari receives Pastor Tunde Bakare in State House on…

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Tunde Bakare launches N4N Movement, predicts change of govt. in 2023

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…Says 1999 Constitution ‘glorified death certificate’ The Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church,Pastor Tunde Bakare,has announced the inauguration of the Nigeria for Nigerians (N4N) Movement. Pastor Bakare, who announced the movement yesterday, during his ‘state of the nation’ address, titled: The Black Box of Nigerias politics in Oregun, Lagos, said the launch is an indication that it is time for Nigerians to take back Nigeria”, adding that the address would be the last he will deliver in the church. He said that the N4N Movement was inaugurated because it…

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“There is gross failure in Buharis administration” Pastor Tunde Bakare declares

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The Senior Pastor of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has lamented about the worsening insecurity in the nation, stating that Buharis administration is a failure. Bakare who has been very critical of the Buhari administration said this during a recent interview on a television programme yesterday.  The pastor, who was President Buharis running mate in 2011, said this is not the Nigeria everyone envisioned after President Buhari took over office in 2015. This is not the Nigeria we envisioned, not only as young people but in the…

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