24th January, 2011
The Convener of Save Nigeria Group, SNG, and Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has dispelled newspaper reports that he had already been picked as the running mate of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd).
Buhari is running for the April presidential election on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC.
Speaking during a sermon in his church in Lagos yesterday, Pastor Bakare said he had not joined any political party, let alone being picked as any presidential candidate’s running mate.
He said the reports in the media were merely speculative and that he was not contacted by the authors of such reports to authenticate what they reported.
Bakare, however, said he did not rule out the possibility of joining the political fray if it was the will of God for him to do so, saying “let God’s will be done.â€
He cited the example of David in the Bible whom God asked to leave his father’s flock to lead the people of Israel, adding that when God calls someone, the person must obey.
He asked the congregation to pray fervently for him as these are indeed very trying times for him.
In one of his sermons, he told his congregation late last year that among the presidential candidates running for this year’s election, Buhari was the man with unblemished record even as military head of state between 31 December 1983 and 26 August, 1985, and as chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund.
The pastor has used his Save Nigeria Group to mobilise Nigerians to participate actively in the electoral process, particularly the ongoing voter registration exercise and to vote in April and make their votes count.
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