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MAYOWAAK: Taking a cursory look at this thread with emphasis on the votes cast so far,I can safely conclude that the self styled Serving Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly,Pastor Tunde Bakare is coasting home to victory,without pre-empting the moderators and those who are yet to cast their votes.

However,below is my tribute to the man I refer to as as a multi-dimensional persona.Tunde Bakare,pastor,politician,lawyer,activist:

Tunde Bakare 58 IS A LAWYER AND PASTOR but he is standing out from the maddening crowd of lewd lawyers and prodigal pastors.He has shown exemplary courage and taken his courage on a road show.He and his group, the Save Nigeria Group, has touched the imagination of his fellow citizens by restoring their right to question and challenge inequitable government policies by unblocking their minds ,which have been weighed down by successive oppressive governments.

However,the consistency with which Bakare challenges the government to do what is right and lawful for the benefit of the Nigerian citizens often portrays as a man who is wont to cause controversy and set the society on fire.He is a man of courage.He has moved against the virulent forces.

When Gani Fawehinmi was alive,people accused the irrepressible human rights lawyer of the love of fame and publicity simply because he showed courage in confronting the establishment when occasions called for it,but he needed neither fame nor publicity because he had both already though his legal writings and publications.For Gani and Bakare,the show of courage is no scheme for advancement,it is no scheme to to humiliate others or to make life comfortable for themselves.For them,the show of courage seems to be a way of life.For real men of courage,fear is afraid of them.

Bakare,the Pastor of Latter Rain Assembly has shown the kind of courage exhibited by the Hebrew midwives,Shiphrah and Puah,who were instructed by the autocratic King Pharoah of Egypt to kill all boys as soon as they were born.The defied the King and let the boys live.Bakare’s courage can also be compared to that of Moses’s mother who hid her newly born son for three months and risked the anger of the King.Her courage saved her boy.

Bakare is the equivalent of the Good Samaritan.Some Pastors are Bad Samaritans,they are truth benders,they scavenge for money by hook or crook,their only desire is to build empires of filth and this vaulting ambition blinds them to the true essence of religion,blinds them from dispensing the gift of Good Samaritanism.At a time of depression,desperation sends people to all sort of places for placation but Bakare is one of the exceptional shepherds who worry about the well-being of their sheep whether the attend his church or not.That is why he would take up the fight for a better Nigeria.

Bakare is also a lawyer.Lawyers are partisan professionals.They are hired by one party,they speak for one party,they defend one party,the party that hires them.As a lawyer,he could have chosen to defend big,thieving multi-nationals who are ripping off poor widows and orphans but he did not.No one hired Bakare but he is defending Nigeria without a fee.That is the stuff of patriotism.

Bakare does not have the gift of flaming oratory.He says commonsensical things in a frank and direct manner.He doesn’t waste words,he just says what needs to be said but what he says touches the nerve because it is true.Truth is oratory.It needs no embellishment,no decoration,no dressing up.And it takes me of courage to say the truth,the inconvenient truth and to fight for its triumph.

A good Nigeria can only be built by courage.As J.M Barrie said “Courage is the thing.All goes if courage goes.”.Tunde Bakare,pastor,lawyer,activist is a man of great courage which is why NAIRALANDERS in my humble opinion has chosen him as winner of the POLITICS SECTION:HALL OF FAME 2012.

Maxymilliano: Apology is in order here considering the many glitch experienced during the concert, and also to to those girls that dressed like Kim K to #kokoconcert only to end up wit dusty legs like a gala hawker in Oshodi.

Best way to go D'banj...

Aggrippa: where is my koboko

Emmy9ite: Am sorry i couldn't expatiate on the other ones, its due to my busy schedule. The next tips will be on how to cope with school and business. Pray i don't forget.

gbosaa: Enough of all these rantings about Osaze,not every player will be invited.
You were wrong about Osaze not being an a.rse -kisser...yes he is and always will be,he is only yelling cos he wasnt invited and things didnt go his way.Must he always expect the coaches to do as he wishes..

He made the infamous statement...oyibo na oyibo..when lagerbac was employed to succeed Amodu whom he had criticised.Couldnt he have done that in the dressing room in a proper manner or address and present his grievances maturely.

This is same skillful,wonderful and fantastic player who played at his motherlands russias lokomotiv moscow and his adoring fans had to say bye bye to him with a massive banner with picture of a huge banana.The bugger couldnt reply the racist who didnt know the difference between an osaze and an nsofor.When a German is about to replace a Nigerian,he,ll start talking like an slowpoke.To hell with him,let the eagles exit south africa in the first round,people like me will still be proud of them.

blink182: Lol, Osaze is our Messi and Ronaldo. He plays for Nigeria like those boys that play in very small local teams, hoping they would get noticed by a scout. If only they could all play like that instead you see players playing to ensure they do not get injured in a national match.

k2039: [color=soyouquotedme]All na wash [/color]

byrron: HELP ME TELL THEM OOO.

SOMETIMES I WONDER IF NIGERIANS HAVE THEIR BRAINS ON A PENDULUM DOING JANGOLOVA?

NO WONDER THE COUNTRY IS IN A TOTAL MESS NOT BECAUSE OF THE LEADERS BUT BECAUSE OF THE INCONSISTENT PSYCHOLOGICAL MAKE UP OF NIGERIANS HENCE THEY THE LEADERS EXPLOIT IT TO THE FULLEST.

ogugua88: Hmm. I'll have to agree with the others about Flavour's album o. It's been selling, even here in the US. It was on iTunes three days after they hit streets in Nigeria, and his videos on youtube direct people to iTunes.

The person who released an album and I had no clue was Duncan Mighty. I just got it last week lol. Apart from the two or three flop tracks, it's a solid album.

As for "Solar Plexus", haters will hate. I fell in love with that album when I first heard it and love it more every day. Dr Sid's "Chocolate", D'Prince's "Amarachi", and Wande Coal's "Forever" are the best. "O Ma Ga" is cool too.

donchris369: Mehn, this op mudered D'prince o.

Kadata: You don't have to.

Continue pouring.

Rheinmetal: Seriously?
Now how does one determine which artiste pushed the most units in Naija?
I am yet to be made aware of the Naija version of the RIAA to track album sales.
Maybe the fact that the blogger could not find a particular album with his favourite hawker in VI traffic now translates to lack of commercial success?
All these Perez Hilton wannabes forming Siskel and Ebert take time o lest we hear that Naeto C pummels another blogger for greeting his wife!
Now seriously there is no current authority on Nigerian album sales that is certifiable, and as such the blogger's review is not justifiable.

Rossikk: You're a dumb wingbat without the merest modicum of common sense. In your lunatic reasoning, a player excluded from the squad can go on twitter and insult the national team coach and FA, and to you that is ''legitimately expressing his grievances''. Does team discipline mean anything at all to you?

Did Martins and others also go on twitter to insult the FA and coach for leaving them out?

What has Odemwingie done for the SE that Martins hasn't done?

If Martins had gone on twitter and facebook to publicly insult the FA and coach for 'daring' to exclude him, would you support him?

It is ignorant sellouts like you that show us why it was so easy for whites to conquer Africa. You seem to turn STU.PID and DUMB whenever they or their offspring are involved, as if you're under a spell or curse. SPIT.

chelseabmw: What will they name the child? Black ivy