I Trust Buhari But Doubt His Environment – Tunde Bakare

The General Overseer of the Latter Rain
Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Tuesday said
that he trusted the presidential candidate of the
All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.) but not the credibility of “his
environment”.
“Yes I trust Buhari and this is because I have
worked closely with him but I doubt his
environment. The Peoples Democratic Party and
the All Progressives Congress, which one is really
clean? Only God can give us true leaders,” Bakare
said.
The pastor spoke while addressing Christians at
the annual Lenten lecture of the Island Club in
Lagos.
“I believe in contact without contamination,” he
said.
Bakare, who was the running mate of Buhari on
the platform of the Congress for Progressive
Change in the 2011 presidential election, said he
was not a politician but a nation-builder.

He said, “If General Buhari wins, let President
Goodluck Jonathan accept defeat. Whoever loses
is not a loser and if the winner is President
Goodluck Jonathan, Buhari should accept this as
the will of God.
“The 2015 election is a serious crossroad and we
might be playing with fire but with wisdom and
prayer, we shall end well.
“ I am not a politician; I am not a PDP nor APC
member. I am a nation-builder. Whoever I
support is not the issue, God’s will must prevail.
My loyalty is first to God and to my country but
God knows Nigeria’s next president.”
Speaking on fasting, he urged Christians in the
country to examine the true spirit behind the
Lenten fast, saying fasting was not an antidote to
problems but an opportunity to submit to the
will of God.
The pastor attributed the wrong attitude of
Christians to fasting to biblical illiteracy, saying
that true fasting ordained by God was explained
in Isaiah 58, highlighting the need to help the
poor and be led by God to observe it.