Tunde Bakare, founder of Citadel Global Community Church, has revealed that he is under immense pressure to join African Democratic Congress (ADC) opposition coalition.
Gatekeepers News reports that Bakare was among the aspirants who contested for APC presidential ticket in 2023 alongside President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Speaking on Saturday during the inaugural edition of the Citadel School of Governance Dialogue Series, Bakare insisted that he will remain in All Progressive Congress (ADC), dismissing the possibility of aligning with ADC despite persistent persuasion from top political figures.
He revealed that several prominent politicians, including a former governor and minister from the South-West, have been urging him to join the ADC.
Bakare said, “There has been a lot of pressure on me from who is who to join ADC. They come to my home. Even while I was abroad, the hierarchy of that party kept calling, saying they needed my voice.”
The cleric added that a younger political associate who had benefitted from key positions in the APC also encouraged him to lend his influence to the ADC.
He said, “I am not going to take part in ADC. The last time I knew about ADC was about a plane that crashed. I wish them well, because we need a robust opposition.”
“But you don’t birth a child called APC and then try to kill it yourself. We are not going to have another Awolowo-Akintola crisis in the south-west.”
Bakare further stated that President Bola Tinubu’s administration is divinely guided.
He added, “If God wants to remove ‘emilokan,’ He knows how to do it. You can’t get the kind of thing Tinubu has brought without God’s support.”
