2011: Bakare Endorses Buhari
From Muhammad Bello in Port Harcourt, 12.07.2010
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The leader of Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare has once more reiterated that the SNG’s choice of who will occupy the exalted position of presidency in the country next year is the best person that satisfy certain common criteria.
These criteria are high level of transparency, rancour free internal democracy, ability to strike a balance between the threats of bipolar allegiance to Sharia by the North and free democracy in the south and true fiscal federalism.

Bakare said he personally endorses Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and his Congress for Political Change (CPC) after meeting severally with major aspirants like President Jonathan, Buhari himself, Nuhu Ribadu, Dele Momodu and Atiku Abubakar. “Most of them that we asked critical questions couldn’t answer us. They were looking for experts to tell them answers. So we need the best candidate. We are not talking about sharing the cake but about baking a cake that will satisfy all Nigerians”.

“If all parties will present a candidate against the PDP, the best I have found so far after meeting with all the major stakeholders is Buhari. Even he and his CPC can’t win an election all on their own”, Bakare posits.

Explaining that there are lot more political eruptions ahead of the 2011 polls, Bakare told a summit of the SNC yesterday in Port Harcourt that the last of consensus candidature is yet to be heard.

“Assuming Atiku wins, Jonathan will use all power at his disposal to undo the PDP. If Jonathan wins the primary all those that produced the consensus candidate will move away and form a new mega party. That is when the battle begins”, Bakare analysed.


He outlined how the SNG will help make the 2011 election credible by saying that against the negligible 3 million registered members of the PDP, the group will mobilise and register 12 million voters. “ There are two Jega in Nigeria today. One is Attahiru Jega and the other is Jonathan Ebele Goodluck. One would count the vote and the other will make sure they count. The SNG will encourage people to blow the whistle during the period of voters register. And during elections, if we suspect rigging, there not only be a critical mass protest, there will be a balance of terror because nobody has the monopoly of violence”, the pastor said.

On his grouse with Jonathan, the SNG leader said the president goofed when the group asked him what his agenda was for Nigeria and he said he wouldn’t promise anything as others have promised and failed. “The SNG will not support Jonathan because he has violated our cardinal principle. If he doesn’t amend that statement I’ll campaign against him even in his own village”, Bakare emphasized.

Threatening to expose everything that happened that has been dragging the nation backwards, Pastor Bakare said Nigerians must be told the plain truth in order for them to support the SNG voluntarily. Thes are: that he is not a member of any political party, that no member of his family has been a card carrying member of any political party and that outside his university days 30 years ago, he has never ran for any political office.

Most salient among the truths he enumerated is the fact that the SNG as a political organization has not taken a stance in favour of any party or candidate until after party primaries. “The SNG position now is that the best of the North and South should steer the ship of state”, Bakare intimated.

I dont get it! Who is SNG or who are SNGs?

Loser endorses loser.
Way to go.

Bakare, I'm with you all the way on this.

When people were busy fighting for IBB,Atiku,GEJ,Saraki I just dey one end dey LMFAO.

Only GEJ has hope in that list and must have to move away from PDP to realize that hope.

Save Nigeria Group (SNG) is a pressure group committed to good governance  and credible election. It is led by fiery Pastor Tunde BAKARE. The SNG was able to muster notable Nigerians in previous protests. Some of those who had been associated with the groups activities include Wole Soyinka, Alani Akinrinade, Ndubuisi Kanu, etc.

^^^^

So?

Ma_J_Blige:

I dont get it! Who is SNG or who are SNGs?

What we lack is alternative voice and I think they provide that.