Senior Pastor of the Citadel Global Community Church(Formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly) Pastor Tunde Bakare, says his ambition to become the President of Nigeria is a lifelong dream and he has something to contribute to the development of Nigeria. Bakare said that he has had that dream as a boy.
The revered cleric spoke on Tuesday night in an Instagram Live Chat with popular journalist, Dele Momodu, monitored by TheNewsGuru.
TheNewsGuru recalls that Bakare was the running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 presidential election. Buhari later contested again and won in 2015 with Yemi Osinbajo under the umbrella of the All Progressives Congress.
The cleric said he has not given up on his presidential ambition but averred that his was not an inordinate ambition.
He said, “In an ideal situation, every Nigerian is entitled to his or her dream and we must find a way of liberating that office that any Nigerian who desires to be in the office or to be the president of Nigeria should be at liberty to do so.
“I express my own desire but it is not any inordinate ambition and it is not that I must kill and maim in order to get there. I have something to offer my country, God giving me the opportunity and the people saying so, I desire to still contribute my meaningful quota to the development of my nation. It is a dream I have had as a little boy and it has never left me but I am not pushing neither am I forcing myself on people.
“Remember something about the presidency in Nigeria, those who pursue it too hard hardly get it, those who put everything into it hardly get it and those who are qualified like MKO, he won the election, they didn’t let him get it. Chief Obafemi Awolowo has been described as the best president Nigeria never had.
“I will tell you it was the time Muhammadu Buhari stood publicly and said I will no longer offer myself for public service; it was after that that he got it. So, there is no inordinate ambition here that it must happen at all cost. If God gives me the opportunity, I will serve my nation but may the best candidate win in the net election and may God bring the best and brightest candidate emerge and steer the ship of our nation.”