by Soji Ajibola
Mimiko
Briefing newsmen on the forthcoming election in Ondo State, Pastor Bakare said, "Mimiko will win hands down in Ondo State and nothing would happen. Thereafter, he will muster strength and there will be an alternative party as people would begin to see leadership by living right and not by material acquisition of flying jets over the people that you want to vote for you, without letting us know how you come about the jets when you have little or no money in your pocket when you became the governor.
"The people of Ondo State should be vigilant and be alert and make sure that they defend their vote. They should vote for the candidate of their own choice.
"I want to remind those who said they will win at all costs what Samuel Akintola said in the election that led to 'Operation we ti e', that if people did not vote for them, angel will vote for them and we know the consequences of that. If anybody thinks they can perpetrate any violence in Ondo State, violence will consume the perpetrator of violence,” he said.
“I speak for no political party because none of them is big enough to buy me. In 2007, the South-West was visited by a powerful hurricane called PDP. The party, under President Olusegun Obasanjo swept almost all the entire South-West because people believed him that he was just trying to be limited to the presidential election. But to their chagrin, their states were swept off and we had PDP in Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti states. They received some through court proceedings, verdict and judgments.
"But God preserved Lagos State in the midst of that hurricane. Through Lagos that was preserved, Ahmed Tinubu, who became the leader of ACN, alongside the leadership of the party, began to muster strength that they were able to secure the South-West from the PDP. It was a breath of fresh air. But the same group opened the door to PDP to sweep the polls during the presidential election in 2011. In the midst of all that, God, also, to teach lessons, preserved a state to be neither ACN nor PDP just as He preserved ACN in Lagos.”
On the proposed integration of the region by the ACN, Pastor Bakare noted that, “no destructive means can bring about constructive ends. If indeed as claimed by them that they want to have economic integration in the integration, it should be preceded by enabling legislation that the house of assemblies of states in the region should pass into law and that will empower their governors to do such.”
“I speak for no political party because none of them is big enough to buy me. In 2007, the South-West was visited by a powerful hurricane called PDP. The party, under President Olusegun Obasanjo swept almost all the entire South-West because people believed him that he was just trying to be limited to the presidential election. But to their chagrin, their states were swept off and we had PDP in Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti states. They received some through court proceedings, verdict and judgments.
ReplyDelete"But God preserved Lagos State in the midst of that hurricane. Through Lagos that was preserved, Ahmed Tinubu, who became the leader of ACN, alongside the leadership of the party, began to muster strength that they were able to secure the South-West from the PDP. It was a breath of fresh air. But the same group opened the door to PDP to sweep the polls during the presidential election in 2011. In the midst of all that, God, also, to teach lessons, preserved a state to be neither ACN nor PDP just as He preserved ACN in Lagos.”- Pastor Tunde Bakare.
Very instructive!!!