What I Know About Buhari, Jonathan And Tinubu – Tunde Bakare

Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly
and one of the conveners of the Save
Nigeria Group, Tunde Bakare, has
disclosed what he knows about some
of Nigeria’s leading political figures.

Speaking in the second edition of The
Interview magazine, which hits the
newsstand this week, Bakare revealed
how President Muhammadu Buhari
chose him as running mate in 2011
and the role of the-then national
leader of the defunct Action Congress
of Nigeria (ACN), later the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, and the drama that
followed.

A statement by the Managing
Director/ Editor in Chief of The
Interview, Mr Azubuike Ishiekwene,
also quoted Bakare as saying that,
“When I first spoke to Tinubu about it
(after Lai Mohammed had come to
tell me that the ACN wanted me to
persuade Buhari to be the party’s
flagbearer), he (Tinubu) said, ‘the
greatest mobiliser in the South West
will be his running mate….’”

Apart from describing how former
President Goodluck Jonathan’s
minion, Godswill Orubebe, chased
him (Bakare) with a $50,000 “gift”,
Bakare ascribed Jonathan’s failure to
his lack of capacity. “At best, he
worked with some botanical things”
before his odyssey to fame and
power,” said the fiery man of God.

In an interview that he would later
say “drained him of virtue”, Bakare
did not mince his words about the
leadership tussle in the South West,
the challenges before Buhari and his
potential role in Buhari’s
government.’’