A
shocking video has emerged of Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain
Assembly openly admitting that he refused to sign a resignation letter
that would have seen him hand over his vice presidential position had
General Buhari been successful in his presidential campaign in 2011.
In an
interview with Kadaria Ahmed aired in July 2013, the firebrand pastor
cum politician was queried as to whether his refusal to step down
contributed to the breakdown of the proposed merger between CPC and ACN
prior to the 2011 elections.
“It was not stepping down that was the issue,”“It
was resigning on paper with my signature, to sign as Vice President of
Nigeria. I said, ‘No, I can’t do that. I can resign as Tunde Bakare, a
candidate, but I cannot resign as Vice President, an office I have not
occupied.’ That is illegal.”
Bakare responded.
“Are
you saying they were willing to allow your name to go forward in the
polls and then they expected that once you’d won the election, you would
resign as Vice President?” queried Ahmed in the pilot edition of her show ‘Straight Talk With Kadaria’ currently airing on Channels Television.
“That is what they were asking for,” Bakare admitted. “But I was not ready to commit perjury, to sign an office I have not occupied.”
Clearly
perplexed, Kadaria questioned as to why Bakare still chose to support a
party that intentionally instructed him to be involved in perjury,
adding that his position as a pastor puts him on an even higher moral
pedestal in the eyes of the public.
“My moral code is simple – I am the salt of the earth and the light of the world,” Bakare retorted. “Light
does not run away from darkness and salt does not run away from
corruption. What you do is contact without contamination.”
The user
who uploaded a short snippet of the interview on YouTube today opined
that a similar agreement had been forged with current Vice presidential
candidate, Pastor Yemi Osinbajo of the Redeemed Christian Church of God
(RCCG) led by Pastor Enoch Adeboye.
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