Lashing back at Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his media handlers, the Serving Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said it is more honourable to have scored zero in the APC Presidential primary with his true identity and credentials.
The comment, an apparent reference to controversies surrounding Tinubu”s credentials and identity, was in response to the Femi Fani-Kayode’s remarks about him.
And worse, Bakare waxed biblically stating, “As for those whose stock in trade is lying against others and fabricating stories that are not true about them, our strong consolation is that their DNA and the final destination are spelt out in the Bible. See Psalm 58:3-8. ‘The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies…’
Fani-Kayode, alongside members of the APC Presidential Campaign Council including Festus Keyamo, Dele Alake, had called on Nigerians to ignore Bakare who got zero votes at the convention, adding, “with due respect to him, he is a political paperweight, a political neophyte.”
But Bakare said on Sunday, while delivering a sermon, “Why are they then giving any thought to what I said? Maybe their alleged ‘paperweight’ is too heavy for them to carry.”
“Can someone tell these people that scoring zero in a primary election with one’s true identity and credentials intact as well as having original certificates from well-known schools: primary, secondary, colleges, and universities within and outside of this nation is a veritable badge of honor, absolutely legit and unquestionable.
“He said that I did a video asking members of our church to vote for their candidate and then turned around to ask them not to vote for him.
“Unfortunately, there is no such video containing such falsehood.”
“In the said video, I never asked our members to vote or not vote for their candidate or any other candidate. By the way, our members are not zombies. They, by the grace of God, have their own minds and will decide who to vote for on Election Day.
“Rest assured, I will take the vicious attacks of these political merchants in my stride, because I know that according to Voltaire: ‘Many are destined to reason wrongly, others not to reason at all and some to persecute those who do reason.’
