President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday received Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), in Lagos.
Pastor Bakare’s visit to President Tinubu was announced in a post on X by the Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
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Recall that, Bakare, a former presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023, had in April criticised Tinubu, saying that he is steering Nigeria in the wrong direction.
He decried the relationship between the executive and legislative arms of government under Tinubu, asking the Nigerian leader to “stop playing God”.
“To the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, under whose brand of politics the institution of legislative oversight is collapsing and our democracy is faced with an existential threat, I say: Mr. President, Nigeria is too delicate for this kind of politics,” the preacher said.
“If this state capture was what you meant by emi lo kan, it is an anti-climax that can only be counterproductive in the end. I urge you, Mr. President, to think deeply and reflect on these words: ‘No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.’ Please, stop playing God!”
“Mr President, it is through your influence that the Nigerian National Assembly has become a haven for legislative rascality,” Bakare criticized.