Posted on Monday, November 29, 2010
President Jonathan Offered Us $50,000 Bribe, But We Returned It - Pastor Tunde Bakare Confirms

Fiery Lagos-based pastor, Tunde Bakare, has confirmed to Saharareporters that President Goodluck Jonathan proivede a $50, 000 cash bribe to a delegation of the Save Nigeria Group that visisted him last Monday, but that the group sent back the money.


Pastor Bakare’s confirmation came in the midst of a tepid denial of our earlier report by Tony Uranta, one of Mr. Jonathan's political operatives. Uranta had claimed on his Facebook page yesterday that Saharareporters misrepresented the crux of the meeting between the president and the Pastor Bakare-led delegation.

Specifically, Uranta denied that Jonathan discussed his ambition to run for office with the SNG delegation. He also stated that no money was offered to the SNG team and claimed that, contrary to our earlier report, the Bakare group had not asked him to return the bribe money to Jonathan.

But in a telephone interview with Saharareporters on Sunday evening, Pastor Bakare confirmed that the details of our earlier exclusive report were factual and unimpeachable.

Bakare, who has a reputation for speaking out fearlessly on current political issues, affirmed that the Minister of the Niger Delta, Godsday Orubebe, had offered the SNG delegation the sum of $50,000 on behalf of President Jonathan. The SNG had met with Jonathan to review his performance in office.

In the phone interview, Pastor Bakare stated categorically that his team was indeed offered money after it submitted a position paper on why it was opposed to the president's ambition to be re-elected. He confirmed that the cash was immediately returned to sender through Uranta, shortly after it was presented to the SNG delegation.

The SNG convener told Saharareporters that his team felt terribly embarrassed and offended by the orchestrated attempt by Jonathan and his team to buy the SNG’s support through illicit means.

An obviously angry Bakare said, “You can quote me. I don't do deals and I don't lie. Tony [Uranta] could be saving his own face. Tony lied that he didn't collect the money from us. There are living witnesses. Orubebe has confirmed to me that the money was returned. Mr. President is aware through Oronto Douglas that we returned his money through Tony.”

Bakare said he, Yinka Odumakin and other SNG officials went to the meeting with Jonathan with a written document that explained why the SNG would not support his candidacy.

“We submitted a document regarding the culture of impunity in which he (Jonathan) continues to swim," he said.

SOURCE: http://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2010/11/president-jonathan-offered-us-50000.html


Posted on September 11, 2015
What I benefited from Jonathan – Pastor Bakare

Nigerian Pastor, Tunde Bakare, has disclosed details of his meetings with former President Goodluck Jonathan, and what he benefitted from the former leader while he was in office.
Mr. Bakare, a former running-mate of President Muhammadu Buhari on the platform of defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011, said he wrote four -point letter to Mr. Jonathan, calling his attention to the level of impunity in his administration.
Giving details of what he benefitted from the immediate past president, Mr. Bakare said, “Let everyone declare what he has received. I can tell you what I received. I took two people there one day and he invited us to dinner. I had a bad sore throat that day, so I took a pass regarding the dinner.
“Another day, I took a couple there and I took a cup of tea. I told you about the $50,000 which I refused, but that was Orubebe. He sent me a cow at Christmas – which I gave the staff to kill – and a hamper through our pastor in Abuja, but I told him to keep it.”
Mr. Bakare stated this in an interview with an Abuja-based magazine, THE INTERVIEW.
The pastor revealed that at a point, the former president offered to give him “something”, which he refused and opted for simply a pen.
“Finally, when the opportunity came and he (Jonathan) said, ‘I will like to give you something’. I [then] said ‘I like pens: so if you must give me anything, let it be a pen, so that I can show it to my people and say ‘the president gave me a pen,’” he disclosed.
He said one day, after a meeting with Mr. Jonathan, a former minister in charge of Niger Delta Affairs, Godsday Orubebe, rushed to offer him $50,000 for “transport”, an offer the pastor said he turned it down.

“When we were leaving, Orubebe ran after me and offered me $50,000 for my transport. I said, ‘Haba, take your money, I am not for sale’. We said goodbye to him and the rest is history,” Mr. Bakare said.
Giving details of his meeting with the former president, Mr. Bakare said, “When he (Jonathan) became president, I said to him, ‘the things we marched and protested against, you are now perpetrating them – the same impunity’”.
“I gave him four points in writing. Before we left Lagos, I gave a copy to Pastor Adeboye and another to General Alani Akinrinade. I said, ‘we are going to say goodbye to this man’ because if a man cannot keep his own side of the bargain, because if you got here by the grace of God and not because of any pedigree and, within 10 years, had become the president of Nigeria.
“God has brought you into the kingdom for such a time as this, so you cannot begin to commit the same impunity,” he said.
Mr. Bakare said in another meeting with the former president, he (Jonathan) told him that he needed someone to tell him the truth.
“He reached out to me later and said, ‘look, let’s put that behind us; Nigeria’s situation is critical.’”
“Before I went, I called General Buhari and said ‘this man invited me, I don’t know what for.’ When I got there, he said he needed someone who could tell him the truth always. I said, ‘if that is what you want, you have me at your side,’” he said.
Mr. Bakare therefore challenged religious leaders to declare what Mr. Jonathan gave him, saying the clergy did not tell the former president the truth because they benefitted from him.
“However, you see, Christian leaders benefitted tremendously from his administration in terms of licences and waivers. The thing is, when you allow those in power to get you into any compromise, speaking to them will be very difficult.
“I don’t know if any of those allegations were true, but I have seen enough to begin to think that they were not able to use our overwhelming influence. If you have benefitted from evil, you cannot talk about it, nor criticize it. Let everyone declare what he has received,” Mr. Bakare said in the magazine interview.

SOURCE: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/189873-what-i-benefited-from-jonathan-pastor-bakare.html

Almost a year after election APC is still campaigning. Nigeria under APC is such a country I don't wish for. I think we need to stop hearing excuses and get some results from this government. As I write am still in a filling station queue where I joined as early as 5am. Isn't it sad that we keep hearing what the past government did even when those saying it are beneficiaries. I thank God because there is God.

kgr8mike:
Almost a year after election APC is still campaigning. Nigeria under APC is such a country I don't wish for. I think we need to stop hearing excuses and get some results from this government. As I write am still in a filling station queue where I joined as early as 5am. Isn't it sad that we keep hearing what the past government did even when those saying it are beneficiaries. I thank God because there is God.

There is every likelihood that the government will do nothing in their four years like other previous governments.

That is nigerian "leaders" way of governance. Bad "leaders".

greatiyk4u:
History will remember a certain man in Nigeria who;

~Was made a deputy Governor, and his Governor was impeached

~Made the Governor of his state and impoverished the lives of his people by denying them dividend of democracy

~made the Vice president, and his president died in office

~Made the president of the country, and the economy died after 5years in office because of his ineffectual buffoonery

He is back to Bayelsa and recently, we heard the economy of the state crashed

Who is this man please

Your papa

This spokes man is a liar from the gate of hell.how can Jonathan be giving $100k to every visitor that comes to the aso rock haba.abeg fear God mister Man

popez:
Unfortunately no sane person will believe this rubbish. Does it also mean that when buhari and other Apc 'saints' visited Aso Rock in the past,during the previous administrations that they were also given $100,000?

Firstly, Buhari didn't visit ASO rock while ineffectual buffoon was there dolling money out to his cronies like tomorrow no dey.
Secondly, sane people will believe it because we were in this same Nigeria when Tunde Bakare and his Save Nigeria Group rejected $50,000 given to them by your ineffectual buffoon and it became a pointer to stealing that became the order of the days throughout his tenure in office.

dunkem21:


I think you are the one to stop drinking Ogogoro ..

https://www.nairaland.com/2367041/saraki-denies-snubbing-truce-meeting

Go and sin no more

If I tell You say you don high, you go dey vex

I dey sipp my Kunu jeje, you call am ogogoro