*Photo L-R: Pastor Tunde Bakare and President Bola Tinubu*
A former aide to ex President Goodluck Jonathan has reacted to the recent criticism of the President Bola Tinubu’s administration by Pastor Tunde Bakare.
The General Overseer of The Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Bakare, had on Sunday, in his Easter sermon, said Nigeria was descending into tyranny and abuse of power under the Tinubu’s administration.
But Mr Bemigho Reno Omokri,ex Special Assistant on Social Media to former president Jonathan said the criticism should be taken with a pinch of salt.
According to him ,”Tunde Bakare wanted to be President. He contested against President Bola Tinubu for the APC primary on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, and was soundly defeated. Tunde Bakare scored ZERO votes at the primary. Please fact-check me. He is not speaking as a pastor or prophet. He is speaking as a defeated and bitter rival who is covetous of the President’s position.”
Omokri, in a post on his social media handles added that “You cannot expect a rival you defeated to be fair, just and balanced concerning you. It is not possible.
“It is like expecting Kanye West to speak positively about Taylor Swift after losing the Grammy Award for Album of the Year to her.
“This is a man who informed us that heaven has ordained him to be the sixteenth President of Nigeria after Buhari. Today, the reality is that the sixteenth President of Nigeria is President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Do you then expect him to be happy with Bola Tinubu for occupying a position promised to him by heaven?
“If Tunde Bakare can lie against heaven (not the first time. He also claimed in 2006 that the Holy Spirit told him Buhari was part of Nigeria’s decaying past, before running with the same Buhari in 2011), who are you that he cannot lie to? ”