Latter Rain Assembly Pastor, Tunde Bakare, has said that Nigeria
needs total cleansing to grow and progress, predicting that “those who
put the country in its present mess will not escape when God arrives to
do the cleansing.” Addressing a press conference yesterday in Lagos at
the Church auditorium, the preacher insisted that “we need the Ghana
treatment to send shock wave down the spines of everybody so that people
would tip-toe when going into public office,” enthusing that it
remained “how God will do it.”
The maverick cleric, whose address’s theme was, “The Head that
Refuses a Life-giving Rebuke Will be Thrown Down the Cliff of
Perdition,” regretted that “this government has lost it long before
now,” insisting that “until good governance is in place and credible
people are not discouraged from playing clean politics, things would not
change.”
Speaking on the recent allegation of squandering of foreign reserves
running into several billions of dollars levelled against the Federal
Government by the former minister of education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili at a
lecture, Bakare berated the government’s spokesmen and the leadership of
the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), for “chasing the shadow and
leaving the substance.”
He pointed out that rather than addressing the grievous corrupt act,
the CAN leadership, which Bakare said was expected to serve as the voice
for the voiceless started to act as government appendage, regretting
further that “it was the re-tweeting of figurative expression of Mallam
Nasir el-Rufai that the agents of diversion have latched onto to take
our focus from the fundamental issues Oby raised and to which they have
no answer.”
His words: “But rather than giving a lucid, reasoned and mature
response to Mrs. Ezekwesili, the Federal Government, through its
spokespersons, went into all manner of tirades against her person,
virulently attacking the messenger while ignoring the message. “This
puerile approach must have incensed many Nigerians with sense of decency
and propriety in public affairs.”
“One young Nigerian with such righteous indignation went on tweeter
to comment, among other things, that if Christ in all his holiness were
to criticise the present administration, it would, out of its
intolerance, accuse the messiah of having slept with Mary Magdalene. “It
was the re-tweeting of this figurative expression by Mallam Nasir
el-Rufai that the agents latched onto in order to take our focus from
the fundamental isuues Oby raised and to which they have no answer.”
Bakare lamented further that, “it is rather unfortunate that the CAN
that should bring understanding to simple matters like these has
confirmed the description by the Catholic Church as an arm of the
government in power by fanning the propaganda of agents of the
administration that el-Rufai is a bigot for a statement that did not
originate from him and whose meaning should be clear to a
non-mischievous person.” He, therefore, described el-Rufai as “a
detribalised and religiously neutral person,” insisting that “he is not a
religious bigot.”
Monday, February 4, 2013
Nigeria Needs Cleansing–Pastor Tunde Bakare
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