Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, has said that he will never refer to Bola Tinubu as his president.
The politician and cleric said that a number of electoral frauds occurred during the 2023 elections and that the Independent National Electoral Commission messed up the campaigning process during a webinar on Saturday.
After giving his lecture on the Zoom show titled “Building the New Nigeria: The Role of the Diaspora,” which was put on by the PTB4Nigeria In Diaspora Group, he made this statement in response to a question.
When asked if he would be pleased to serve as the new government’s Minister of Diaspora Engagements, he smiled and responded that he would say what he had told President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) the previous week.
He claimed to have informed Buhari that he sometimes referred to him as “My President” and other times as President of Nigeria.
Bakare said: “Last Wednesday, I was at the Glass House where he (Buhari) has been restricted now because the main house is being renovated.
“I said I have done that for you. I want you to know that, because of the circumstances of your flying into power on the wings of integrity and incorruptibility, but you’re now passing onto someone who does not have that value.
“Any public lecture anywhere, before this mess is cleared off, I will address Asiwaju (Tinubu) as a President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria but I will never call him my president.”
