{"id":33692,"date":"2020-10-02T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T08:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33692"},"modified":"2020-10-02T08:17:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T08:17:49","slug":"bakare-speaks-on-fuel-subsidy-asks-buhari-to-kill-corruption-not-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33692","title":{"rendered":"Bakare speaks on fuel subsidy, asks Buhari to kill corruption, not Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Pastor-Tunde-Bakare\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The senior pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, formerly Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to murder corruption and not Nigerians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He spoke on fuel subsidy at The Platform on Thursday, a special programme to commemorate Nigeria\u2019s Independence Day anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bakare<\/a> said, \u201cDon\u2019t kill Nigerians, kill corruption because we knew that the subsidy being paid is going into private pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lagos based cleric was among notable Nigerians who staged the historic protest against the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, when that administration increased the price of petrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recalling that incident, Bakare said that the 2012 protest against Jonathan\u2019s government was not against subsidy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI campaigned against the oppression of the poor,\u201d he said, adding that the subsidy by the federal government was never used to better the cause of the poor Nigerians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

READ ALSO: Buhari\u2019s govt leading Nigeria into \u2018extreme decay\u2019 \u2014PDP Governors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the calls for Nigeria\u2019s disintegration, Bakare said that Nigeria should be united, and lamented that no nation can make considerable progress when mediocre people are at the helm of its affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, we are in a nation where the blind leads the seeing, and there was a need to ensure that the right people are in positions of leadership in order to put the country on the right track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cIf you compare our performance with the nations that began this journey with us \u2014 nations like Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and South Korea \u2014 they\u2019ve left us behind. We are still in the woods and are yet to come out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe thank God we are still a nation and we trust God that as we dialogue this afternoon and others bring their ideas to the table, those that are leading us will begin to put the best of us in strategic positions to move our nation forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo nation anywhere can survive or embark on predictable progress when mediocres are in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure and I\u2019m not limiting the Almighty and I hope this will not be seen as blasphemy; I\u2019m not sure the Bible contemplates Nigerian leadership, because the Bible says when the blind leads the blind, they all end up in a ditch. But we\u2019re in a nation where the blind leads the seeing,\u201d Bakare said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked what could be done to address the challenges bedevilling the country, he explained that there was a need for a change of orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think we put the cart before the horse and whenever you put the cart before the horse, there is motion backward. We need to put the horse before the cart. We need urgent national redemption and until that takes place, we are just wasting our time,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The senior pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, formerly Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to murder corruption and not Nigerians. He spoke on fuel subsidy at The Platform on Thursday, a special programme to commemorate Nigeria\u2019s Independence Day anniversary. Bakare said, \u201cDon\u2019t kill Nigerians, kill corruption because we knew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBakare speaks on fuel subsidy, asks Buhari to kill corruption, not Nigerians » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33692\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33692#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Protests\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=54\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Bakare speaks on fuel subsidy, asks Buhari to kill corruption, not Nigerians\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Bakare speaks on fuel subsidy, asks Buhari to kill corruption, not Nigerians » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33692","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=33692#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Protests","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=54"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Bakare speaks on fuel subsidy, asks Buhari to kill corruption, not Nigerians"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=54\" rel=\"category\">Protests<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The senior pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, formerly Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to murder corruption and not Nigerians. He spoke on fuel subsidy at The Platform on Thursday, a special programme to commemorate Nigeria\u2019s Independence Day anniversary. Bakare said, \u201cDon\u2019t kill Nigerians, kill corruption because we knew…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33692"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}