Pastor Tunde Bakare, The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly has berated the Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government, saying it has failed Nigerians, Njenje Media News reports.
During an Instagram Live Chat with popular journalist, Dele Momodu, Bakare said the President has failed the expectations Nigerians had when they elected him into office in 2015.
He said there was lack of leadership, moreso with the rising cases of kidnapping and killing, causing non-state actors to take the law into their own hands.
In his words;
“We are praying hard that the country will survive and become strong again, this is not what we all call the Nigeria of our dreams. Nigeria will survive and will become the Nigeria of our dreams but right now, things are not together, especially with the drum of disintegration which is louder than before.
“Nigeria is better together, if we go back together to the basics of how we came together, looking at 1960 a 1963, we can still be together. We are not there yet, but we are getting closer.
“The truth of the matter is it is still the same Buhari; in the midst of many competing interests, we respond differently. The President is still himself, some have even asked me if he is not somebody else.
“Power changes people, has power changed him or is he making the best situation of the circumstances? He will be the one to answer it. The expectations of Nigerians, including everyone who woke up to say we need a breath of fresh air, has not been met. There is a feeling of disappointment.
“Citizens have the right to demand good governance. People deserve the government they get.”
Citing a biblical illustration, he said, “We rejected the Peoples Democratic Party and embraced All Progressives Congress’s change but it appears we have been shortchanged.”
Njenje Media News recalls that Pastor Tunde Bakare was the running mate of Buhari in the 2011 presidential election on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change, but lost to former President Goodluck Jonathan and Namadi Sambo of the Peoples Democratic Party.
