Nigerians have reacted to the announcement by founder of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, that he’ll be running for president based on a directive from God.
Recall that while speaking to his congregation during the New Year’s Eve service at the Latter Rain Assembly in the Ogba area of Lagos State on Monday, January 1, 2018, the popular televangelist revealed that God wants him to run despite his plan to quit politics for good.
Even though he wasn’t specific about whether he would be running during the 2019 presidential elections, he urged the congregation to pray for him and promised to update them.
Pastor Bakare was notably picked as the running mate of current president, Muhammadu Buhari, when he contested on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) during the 2011 presidential election which he lost to former president, Goodluck Jonathan.
Read below the reaction of some Nigerians on social media to his declaration:
@freshestgist: “For heaven’s sake, why blast Pastor Bakare for airing his mind? He has every right to run for any political office”
@halafbi: “God just told me not to vote for “Tunde Bakare” come 2019. Since they can’t stop using God’s name to lie, we will feed them with the same piece of cake they made for us to eat …nonsense”
@UC_Wiz: “God has asked tunde bakare to run for president. God has told Mbaka that Dankwambo will be president….but for me, God has asked me to leave this country. And I will. Tunde run, Dankwambo run, Buhari run, while I run away”
@Segunvc: “God has been brought in again as countdown to the 2018 general elections begin in Nigeria. Fiery Lagos pastor, Tunde Bakare has said that he has received God’s directive to contest for 2019 presidential election.”
@Ali_McHenri: “Pastor Tunde Bakare. If God said you should run for President…. No wahala! If you go on to run for the office….. No wahala! If you win….. No wahala! But if you go there and behave like Bu… , Touch not my anointed’ won’t save you. We go drag you!”
@Sksolakuti “God has asked me to run for the presidency – Pastor Tunde Bakare
@tksilicon: “Tunde Bakare said God asked him to run for presidency. Meaning that Buhari isn’t delivering else we would have been praying for more grace. But Buhari has taken the grace of God for granted. Mbaka has pitched tent with Dankwanbo. All these are making things easier for Atiku.
@lexxy442: “Pastor Tunde Bakare said God told him to run to be Nigeria’s President in the same 2019 that Father Mbaka said God told him Dankwambo will be President. How man ‘gods’ are speaking to them? Please let’s stop dropping God’s name & differentiate desire from vision.”
@deapostlew2: “Pastor Tunde Bakare said that God told him to run for President. He didn’t say that God told him that he will be President. Its okay to run for President. Do the Aftermaths!!
@sanywriter1: “It’s only in Nigeria that a Tunde BAkare needs your prayer to achieve his political aim after having claimed to have heard God’s word of encouragement to contest for president. Manipulation of religion.”
@sklyadeniyi: “I wish God can slap people lying on His name – Tunde Bakare”
@Maazi_Dan “Oh for God’s sake! Pastor Tunde Bakare and his people should not turn the new 2018 into an old year, when today is just 2nd January. PMB tried to abort our Happy New Year yesterday and failed, Oga Pastor is trying but will fail. HAPPY NEW YEAR NIGERIANS. Don’t mind them.”
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