A shocking video has emerged of Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Assembly openly admitting that he refused to sign a resignation letter that would have seen him hand over his vice presidential position had General Buhari been successful in his presidential campaign in 2011.
In an interview with Kadaria Ahmed aired in July 2013, the firebrand pastor cum politician was queried as to whether his refusal to step down contributed to the breakdown of the proposed merger between CPC and ACN prior to the 2011 elections.
“It was not stepping down that was the issue,” Bakare responded. “It was resigning on paper with my signature, to sign as Vice President of Nigeria. I said, ‘No, I can’t do that. I can resign as Tunde Bakare, a candidate, but I cannot resign as Vice President, an office I have not occupied.’ That is illegal.”
“Are you saying they were willing to allow your name to go forward in the polls and then they expected that once you’d won the election, you would resign as Vice President?” queried Ahmed in the pilot edition of her show ‘Straight Talk With Kadaria’ currently airing on Channels Television.
“That is what they were asking for,” Bakare admitted. “But I was not ready to commit perjury, to sign an office I have not occupied.”
Clearly perplexed, Kadaria questioned as to why Bakare still chose to support a party that intentionally instructed him to be involved in perjury, adding that his position as a pastor puts him on an even higher moral pedestal in the eyes of the public.
“My moral code is simple – I am the salt of the earth and the light of the world,” Bakare retorted. “Light does not run away from darkness and salt does not run away from corruption. What you do is contact without contamination.”
The user who uploaded a short snippet of the interview on YouTube today opined that a similar agreement had been forged with current Vice presidential candidate, Pastor Yemi Osinbajo of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) led by Pastor Enoch Adeboye.
“This is the same agreement their stooge, Pastor Yemi Osibanjo, has signed for Tinubu that will ensure APC’s dream for a Muslim/Muslim Ticket if Buhari wins,” the video description controversially reads.
muslim-muslim ticket is impossible in Nigeria. do u know that d senate have to approve of a vice-presidential candidature of another individual in d event that Osibanjo resigns? is it possible d senate would pass d candidate? pls let’s stop evil propaganda and mischievous shenanigans. if pdp wants to win, let them bring on an issue based campaign and stop this campaign of calumny.
I noticed that this same write- up was in the news one time ago. I as well notiiced that; pastor Tunde Bakare never mentioned who he was asked to step down for , be a christian or a muslim.
The only thing that PDP know better is stealing which is not corruption, then followed by propaganda. This is the reason why even PDP achievements are mixed up with propaganda.
This write up is arrant gibberish! incoherent.
please can you people campaign with your achievement why always religion? please live religion out of this. PDP has fail Nigerians Good luck has turned bad LUCK TO US. What do you people take Nigerians for that we believe any thing about religion?. we know the procedure of changing vice president go and look for another lie the more evil things you say about Buhari the more people fall in love with him this days.
is it changing vp or gentle man agreement? if the vp say, 4 health reason, am resignin, wot wil u do, sit him down there till eternity? mumu!
Tunde Bakare should have tell Nigerians all these in 2011, not now when PDP has been dolling out billions of Naira, he must have probably got his own share of it. Channel news, AIT and co are all Pro Jonathan, everything they do are stage manage from the back door.
Atimes l feel ashamed being a Nigerian, because Nigerians are very gullible,they love hear say, they don’t read or do proper checks, the are in love with negativism and they lve fake borrowed life from other people.
The day Nigerians will look inwards and accept who they are and their culture,it will protect them. This is what China achieved, by keeping their culture and giving them an identity.
I think this negative thinking in Nigeria is a virus,that is destroying every Nigerian. Nigerians never ever believe anything. Its a sickness. They always choose the lies.
If you hear Nigerians talk,you just laugh. They pour out accusations. I think its this generation that is the problem, they have no identity, they have lost their cultural heritage and chose to adopt another man’s way and they have lost that basic refined morality,they lack respect for elders and the law, this even affects their true fear of God.
Presumption they say is the mother of all errors. Only the grace of God can cure this sick Nigerian generation.
If you tell the truth,they say its a lie and they become irate. It you come with sweet lies, they embrace you. That’s why bad politicians have studied the majority, and they use this to trigger their dumb,illiterate emotions and sarcasm.