Tunde Bakare, the senior pastor
of Latter Rain Assembly, says he has not granted any interview on the issues
involving Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.
“I believe the government is
perfectly capable of addressing the issues,” he said.
“I have not and I am not granting
interviews on this current VP saga. If, however, my counsel is sought at all, I
will handle that confidentially and not in public.”
He asked the public to disregard
any interview he is said to have given over the raging matter.
Meanwhile, an old video recording
in which Bakare declared he is “number 16” after President Muhammadu Buhari,
who he says is “number 15″ in the ”scheme of things”, is spawning a chain of
reactions on social media.
Although the recording was in
February 2018, a year before the 2019 presidential election, it resurfaced at
the weekend — stoked by speculation that he might be picked by the president to
replace Osinbajo.
In the video, Bakare described
Buhari as Moses, who will take Nigerians to River Jordan, and himself as
Joshua, who will take citizens across the river to the promised-land.
”Take it to the mountaintop, if
you have never heard it before, I’m saying it to you this morning; in the scheme
of things as far as politics of Nigeria is concerned, President Muhammadu
Buhari is No 15, and yours sincerely,
I’m No 16. I have never said that to you before. I make it plain this
morning, nothing can change it; he is No 15 and I’m No 16,” he told to his
congregation.
”To this end was I born, I have
prepared you for this for more than 30 years. That is why he wants to run in
2019, I do not oppose; he is still No 15, it is when he steps out that I step
in. His assignment is that of Moses to take Nigeria to River Jordan, but he
can’t cross it, it will take a Joshua to cross to the other side and begin the
distribution of resources to the people of this nation.”
Bakare referred to the president
as No 15 in the political order. But was he implying Buhari is the 15th
president/head of state or was he speaking in terms of the number of tenure?
Going by the number of presidents
Nigeria has had since it became a republic in 1963, Buhari will be 7th, if Nnamdi Azikiwe and
Ernest Shonekan are factored into the mix.
Azikiwe was Nigeria’s first
president, though without executive powers,
in 1963 when the country practiced a parliamentary system of government.
Then followed by Shehu Shagari, 1979-1983; Shonekan, interim president, who
only served for 83 days; Olusegun Obasanjo, 1999-2007; Umaru Musa Yar’adua,
2007-2010; Goodluck Jonathan 2011-2015 and Buhari, 2015 -present.
However, going by the number of
Nigeria’s heads of state (both presidents and military rulers), Buhari is
actually No 15, if his stint as military ruler in 1983 is counted.
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