Serving
Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that he
will not partake of the N12m to be paid to each delegate to the three-month
National Conference to be inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday
(today).
Bakare,
representing Ogun State at the conference, said he made the decision not to
collect the money to be paid to delegates by the Federal Government in order to
dispel any speculation that his motivation for accepting to take part in the
conference was material.
Each of the
492 delegates to the National Conference would be paid N4m per month for the
three month duration and this has been the subject of controversy with some
Nigerians condemning the amount to be spent.
Announcing to
his church members that he had accepted to be a delegate to the conference,
Bakare told the congregation that he would be giving them weekly report as the
conference progressed.
He said, “A
friend of mine called me this (Sunday) morning that he heard on the radio that
‘Pastor Bakare had accepted to go, that his own fee is N12m’. Pastor Bakare
will not take a kobo in the National Conference.
“I will not
take a penny. It has nothing to do with others; that is by choice. We go with
integrity of heart, it is not money. The God of heaven will prosper us.
“What I say
here is what I will do there. I do not say others should do it, but I intend to
do that so that our heart can remain pure. That does not mean the hearts of
others are not pure but I don’t want anybody to think in any slight manner that
the motive is this.
“This is the
moment we have been waiting for, for this end I was born. Nigeria will be
saved, Nigeria will be changed, and Nigeria will become great.”
Bakare
explained that before he decided to be a delegate, he sought the approval of
Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the man to whom the cleric was a
running mate on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011
presidential election.
He said,
“Before I answered the call, before I said yes, I called General Buhari that ‘I
don’t want our stands on this national conference issue to be different. The
governor of Ogun State put me on his list, the Elders of South-West put me on
their list. What do you say?’
“He said the
All Progressives Congress might not be going, but you are free to go because
you never can tell how God will help our nation. That does not mean I am in
APC. People have been asking, ‘are you in APC,’ ‘are you in PDP?’ I have told
you, I am on the side of God. In this season I don’t know until we fix
Nigeria.”
hank you pastor Bakare. With N4m per month and N12m for the period, hw can people say the truth. Its clear that majority of people who jostled for the conference did it for monetary reward and not for pasion for the country. Nigeria is in trouble, keep spending waistefully, prosterity will catch up one day.
ReplyDeleteFor God' sake, what is wrong with our leaders? Someone please answer me. People are dying of hunger, unemployed are dying at interview stadia while 4m is being doused out every month for useless dialogue dat doesn't make sense to the poor. Please God come to our aid in JESUS name. Amen.
ReplyDeletewell the conference to me is a way to settle the boys. APC has said it all and I stand by there decision in not attending it. Our president has other pressing issue like security but he keeps deceiving himself that a conference that is not sovereign will make all our problem stop. Imagine how much 7 billion will help the unemployed in the society. We need solutions and God will solve our problems not Jonathan.
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