General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Tunde Bakare, has drawn the valley line with the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, insisting that he would no longer visit the President, who he once supported.
Speaking during a church service, without making specific reference to Buhari, Bakare revealed that he visited the President to advise him on national issues, but the President refuse to heed his advice.
He had once said, “The country’s security architecture even worsened (such) that we cannot sleep with two eyes closed. It’s so bad, but God is not asleep. Some of my friends do criticise me that I was one of Buhari’s supporters and I had to tell them that I openly supported this man in 2011, but I am not saying I’m not seeing him again. He is someone that I visit sometimes and advises him on what to do and he will listen, but once I leave, there is nothing to show for it.
”Later, I started staying back in my house, but I have time to pray and plead for mercy…”
Bakare, who once claimed that God told him that Buhari was coming to stabilise Nigeria, stated that he was now ready for war and no longer interested in meeting with the President.
Warning that if the President or anyone comes after him for harm, they are likely to learn a lesson.
He said, “I’m not interested in meeting you any longer; no more visits. Now, it is war, because Nigeria must be set free.
“I dare you to come after me, since that is the usual style now. You might have done it to others. You are about to learn a lesson if you touch me.
“If you know what I have done in secret, bring it to the open. I dare you to come after me if you can. I worked with you; I worked for you; I supported you to get there (where you are). When I talk now, I now have a smelly mouth.”
Explaining that injustice and lack of equity left to agitation for secession, the man of God said, “We must realise that what has given rise to the agitation is lack of justice and equity. When there is justice, when there is equity, agitation will die down.
“How can you be expending so much energy on (Sunday) Igboho and (Nnamdi) Kanu? Igboho and Kanu are not Nigeria’s problems. Nigeria must restructure, and no one can stop that.”
Meanwhile, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, had accused religious leaders of preaching hate and propagating falsehood against the Buhariadministration
He said, “I am surprised at some of our clerics, particularly the Christian ones, since it is the religion I am more familiar with. They speak as if they read another Bible. They preach hate from the pulpits, propagate falsehood, generate animosity against the government.”
