The Serving Overseer, Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has condemned attempt by the Nigerian legislature to clamp down on social media critics, saying, “I will not support the suppression of the most potent tool for citizen engagement in the 21st century through a misguided Social Media Bill.”
Bakare said this in an address in his church on Sunday titled, “Unveiling the true enemies of Nigeria.”
The cleric identified the enemies of Nigeria as “the political puppeteers who rig the system to enthrone their stooges and use them to corner resources and opportunities.
“They are the political bandits and pseudo-democrats who are maniacal in merchandising the will of the people, from masterminding vote-buying to engineering seemingly spontaneous outbreaks of political violence. These are the true enemies of Nigeria.”
He also urged the President Muhammadu Buhari, not to leave the choice of his successor in 2023 to chance, saying it is important for the president to influence who would emerge his successor in 2023 so that his legacies would not be rubbished.
Bakare, who had declared his intention to be Nigeria’s 16th President after Buhari, who is number 15, said there was a risk that a looter might take over if Buhari did not deliberately plan and determine who his successor would be.
“God is into succession. Anyone in government that does not concern himself about succession is destroying his own legacy because the person coming after you can just mess up everything.
“Let us ask God for grace of accurate succession; that he (Buhari) will not hand over the baton of government and governance to thieves and perverts, to corrupt and power-drunk individuals, but those who are true patriots, who will serve like our founding fathers served; though not perfect, they did their best,” he said.
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