The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church in Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has slammed people who criticised a sermon in which he commended a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for his contributions to the country.

Bakare, while describing his critics as ‘undertakers,’ urged those with proof that he was bribed to speak out.

He insisted that nobody was rich enough to pay him for his works.

The fiery preacher had last Sunday compared Tinubu to Jephtah in the Bible, saying he fought many battles for the Yoruba and “delivered Lagos State and nearly all the South-West states from the onslaught of the PDP from 1999 to 2007.”

Mixed reactions trailed the message, as many wondered why Bakare, who once spoke against Tinubu turned around to praise him.

The preacher, while speaking to his congregation on Sunday at the church’s headquarters in Ikeja, Lagos, in another message, titled, ‘There is None Holy as the Lord,’ wondered why people judged him based on the clip on Tinubu that went viral without listening to the full sermon.

He said, “One would have thought that the whole message of over an hour would be listened to so that the context of the clip that went viral would be listened to before judgment is passed by those who considered us to have taken a 360-turnaround compared to the thoughts we had taken previously about the man many love to hate and many hate to love.

“Instead, the bath water and the baby were both thrown out by some self-appointed undertakers who think the way forward in our dilemma as a nation is to uproot the tares and separate them from the wheat long before the harvest time ordained by God.

“The same undertakers wilfully forget that the current mixture of the bad, the good, and the ugly in the polity are a result of the negligence of our past and present leaders, who slept on duty and allowed the enemy to sow the tares while the good man had planted good seeds on the ground.”

He insisted that judgment was in the hands of God, and people should not be in a hurry to judge anyone because of their past actions.

Bakare said his commendation of Tinubu’s political success was not an approval of his lifestyle.

The pastor insisted that while many people were sleeping, the former governor was “working hard and positioning his people in strategic places.”

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He noted that it would be hard for anyone to win an election against Tinubu’s candidate in Lagos because “it’s not yet time.”

Bakare explained that his comments on Tinubu were not influenced by any ‘power broker’ from Abuja.

He said, “As a matter of fact, this past week, this set of individuals went to the extreme of calling me delusional, while others concluded that money must have changed hands for me to say the things that were said contrary to my previous stand concerning the same person.

“You think somebody will pay me for what I am doing? No one is rich enough to do it. No one in this country or elsewhere is rich enough. And I am not for sale because I have been bought. I was bought by the Blood of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary and no other price can match that. And if you know of anyone who has given me money at any time to do what I am doing, expose it.

“One gentleman in particular labelled the part of the message he heard without listening to the rest. With all the PhDs he acquired, he said, ‘Tunde Bakare strategical delegitimisation of Tinubu.’

“Brothers and sisters, I say this before God who will judge the quick and the dead, none of these things is true. They are all the figments of the imagination of the writers and they are entitled to their opinions.”

TooMuchStuff:
Keeping embarrassing your calling while the country burns by Buhari people.

Nobody killed Bishop Kukah for boldly speaking the truth to powers. God bless him.

Abdul05:
How does any body aspire to rule a nation without politics? If Tinubu succeeded in doing so, means good luck to him. with his
political alliance party( mass movements of the north) known as APC if cleverly led,
Omo forget,Tinubu is the next president.
Koleyewon.

ipobarethieves:
Nah dem get their mouths.Allow dem to do FREE campaign for TINUBU Awon fl@theads bEAST

Abdul05:
How does any body aspire to rule a nation without politics? If Tinubu succeeded in doing so, means good luck to him. with his
political alliance party( mass movements of the north) known as APC if cleverly led,
Omo forget,Tinubu is the next president.
Koleyewon.

DoubleEngine007:
No be this one first dey insult people searching for job yesterday? I no blame am,na who dey barb that he hair reach ground I blame.. Sun just dey hit the head direct,why won't he miss yan
A pastor praising thief ,hmmm.
Heaven far shall!

cktheluckyman:

Lol mass movement of the North? You yorubas are very funny.Oya put him in the ballot against a Northener and see how much of a mass movement it is

WiszyFraud:
Mumu man

JoeEeL:
This Sokoto-Yoruba mixed breed man should go and sit down.

Awon alatenuje!



Wrong. Everything to you is dirty politics. FREE campaign ko, free campaign ni. We true Yorubas will call out any errant so-called elder.

- Why has Tinubu not fully explained why the cameras at tollgate was removed during #EndSARS protest? You waste the lives of Yorubas during #EndSARS protest and the next thing you know is to mention IPOB? Awe, o o l'opolo l'ori.

- Why did Tinubu downplay the death of Pa Fasoranti's daughter during the Fulani herdsmen attack? Infamously asking 'Where are the cows?'

- Why did Tinubu sell us to the North? Turning the whole Yoruba race into f*cking slaves and peasants. We are at the gutters and Tinubu's 2023 ambition is more than the preservation of Yoruba lives exposed to Fulani terrorist army and herdsmen?

- Why has Tinubu turned a lot of promising Yorubas into touts and agberos? We are now a laughing stock. Our Yoruba ladies, many of them are stuck, in their quest to enter Europe illegally. Many are trapped and are being sold on the sex market in Libya. Our Yoruba ladies are now doing Ashawo all around just to earn a living. No handiwork. Our resources are illegally mined and sold to the Chinese. Most especially the gold in Osun.

- All our male youths (graduates) are now Okada riders in their droves. and bus conductors. Go to Mushin, Jakande, Iyana-Oba, Festac Town and see them. The ones that still want to form posh are simply Uber and Taxify drivers. No jobs for youth.

- Yorubas, in my opinion, take the lead when it comes to internet scam. Many do this. Our values completely eroded. Sad note cos we Yorubas once took the lead in the race for civilisation, even ahead of economies like South Korea then. We were the first to have Television in the whole of Nigeria, even before France. We were the first to own the press. We had the largest exportation of Cocoa and Timber (from Ogun state) before your useless One-Nigeria stripped our honour.

On a final note, you these urchins should stop using mosque and church to suppress the Yoruba voice. We want our separate nation. Crooks like Tinubu will be easily fished out when that time comes.

And finally, take note that your plan to always make it appear that anything anti-Tinubu is always IPOB is dead on arrival.

We are Yorubas -- and are firmly against the crookery and special-interest Tinubu caucus. We are against 2023 elections and are against this corporate establishment called Nigeria PLC. a.ka. Location-419.

A Yoruba nation is what we want -- and any idiot in our way will be crushed. Take note.