The Presiding overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged Nigerian leaders to immortalise former president Muhammadu Buhari.
Bakare, an associate of the late Awujale of Ijebu Land, Oba
Sikiru Adetona and the late former president, Buhari, made the appeal at a news
conference on Sunday to pay tribute to the late leaders.
According to Bakare, the exit of the leaders, who were his
great friends and nationalists on the same day, should be a rallying point for
harnessing their patriotic legacies to move the nation forward.
“I found myself pondering the fact that both leaders died
the same day,” the pastor said.
Bakare, a former presidential running mate to Buhari,
eulogised their lives and legacies, saying that the three of them were friends
brought together by providence for national cohesion.
He said that Buhari’s dream for a better Nigeria was
peerless and resonated in his integrity and forthrightness to the nation’s
development while in office.
“The best Nigeria could do for the late former president is
to advance his dream of a functional Nigeria, a Nigeria where there will no
longer be oppression of any kind, advancement of the rule of law and judicious
deployment of the nation’s resources for the common good,” he added.
Bakare tasked Nigeria leaders to build on Buhari’s legacies
for an equitable and just nation.
He decried the near one party state the nation might be
narrowing into saying that such negated the progressive principles the former
president stood for.
He said that Buhari’s quest for good governance and his
policy interventions, including the not too young to run, opened the political
space and paved the way for young Nigerians to be part of the nation’s
politics.
According to him, Buhari’s progressive stance can be
deployed as a social mobilisation template that when internalised, can change
the nation’s social-economic sphere to advance development..
Speaking of the late Awujale, Bakare expressed a deep
sadness at his demise, referring to him as a father figure.
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