The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said he will never call the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, his president.
The cleric, who spoke at a webinar titled: “Building the New Nigeria: The Role of the Diaspora’ organised by the PTB4Nigeria In Diaspora Group, berated the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over its poor handling of the elections.
He said this while responding during a Question & Answer session after delivering his speech on the Zoom programme titled ‘Building the New Nigeria: The Role of the Diaspora’ organised by the PTB4Nigeria In Diaspora Group.
He insisted that the elections were below acceptable standards.
Bakare, therefore, declared that he would never call the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, his president because of the flawed election that brought him to power.
When asked if he would be happy to work for the new government as a Minister of Diaspora Engagements, he laughed and said he would say what he said to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), last week.
He said he told Buhari that sometimes he called him President of Nigeria and other times, he called him “My President.”
He said: “Last Wednesday, I was at the Glass House in Abuja where Buhari has been restricted now because the main house is being renovated. I said I have done that for you. I want you to know that, because of the circumstances of your flying into power on the wings of integrity and incorruptibility, but you’re now passing on someone who does not have that value.
“Let’s make this clear, at any point or anywhere, before this mess is cleared off, I will address Asiwaju (Tinubu) as a President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria but I will never call him my president.”
Bakare was one of the 16 aspirants that vied for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential ticket in June last year and got zero votes in the primary election held at Eagle Square, Abuja.