God directed me to run for presidency – Bakare

By Tope Musowo

Lagos

 

Leading Christian cleric and the running mate to Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 presidential elections, Pastor Tunde Bakare, may slug it out with incumbent President Buhari and others in the 2019 contest.

Bakare, who heads the Latter Rain Assembly, was on a joint ticket with Buhari on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change.

Declaring his bid in the early hours of Monday during the watch night service at the church premises in Ogba, Lagos state, the vocal cleric said God has told him not to end his political career as he had earlier contemplated.

“Contesting the presidential election of one of the 12 things God revealed would happen in 2018,” he said, adding that this would be done at God’s appointed time.

Bakare explained that God had not told him when the “appointed time” to run for the presidency would be.

“This twelfth one is a difficult one for me. It may draw excitement or condemnation. I have tried my best to keep it (to myself) but the Holy Spirit will not allow me to do so.”

“In my study around 4 am on Sunday morning, God told me ‘you cannot bring your political career to a close; there is still more to do. Run for the Presidency, I will do it at the appointed time,” the pastor added.

Bakare declared that he was unfazed by the daunting task that his aspiration might pose, expressing confidence that once the Lord had spoken, it was left for God to perform it.

“Joseph (in the Bible) did not contest an election; yet, he became the prime minister of Egypt. Why must I worry myself about where to get the resources for the task? Your own duty in this assignment is to pray along with me. When it is the appointed time, He (God) will do it. When He tells me the time, you will hear about it,” he stated.

Bakare said that most “political juggernauts” in the country would fall “at the feet of women in 2018.”

“In 1998, I told you that I saw your President dying between two women. Did it happen? I’m telling you again: some of these political juggernauts will fall at the feet of women and you will see it happen,” he prophesied.

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