Founder
of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that he is
not expecting President Muhammadu Buhari to appointment him into his
cabinet.
Bakare, who spoke in an interview with 11112015/07/31/im-not-expecting-buhari-to-appoint-me-as-minister-tunde-bakare/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Sahara TV on
Thursday, said he did not need a ministerial appointment to effect
change in his country.
Bakare, who was the running mate of Buhari
on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011
presidential election, defended the President’s style of governance,
saying, “slow and steady wins the race.”
The
cleric said, “As far as I am concerned, I am not expecting to be named a
minister. If I am offered an appointment, when I get to that bridge, I
will cross it. I am already a minister of the gospel. Ministry is my
calling and my life. The word minister means servant. When you expect
nothing, you cannot be disappointed.
“I keep on doing what I am
doing, to be a solid supporter of the Buhari movement and what he stands
for in public life. I have no regret on what I did in 2011. If an
opportunity presents itself, I will do it again. I am not seeking
anything.
“Let’s not count chickens before they are hatched. The
Bible says the expectation of the righteous will not be cut off. That is
when the expectation of the righteous is in tandem with God’s
expectation. If you are expecting from God, the flesh can fail. Who
knows tomorrow? In the next two months, when the ministers would be
named, what if nobody is here or alive?”
The
outspoken cleric added that President Buhari’s visit to the United
States had improved the relationship between the two countries.
On
whether former President Goodluck Jonathan should be probed, he said,
“I will not advocate that President Jonathan should be probed or not be
probed. A day or two before the inauguration of the President, the
transition committee received a report. They worked on it for weeks.
“The
President has looked into those reports. If there are anomalies,
President Buhari will call the former president and say things are
irregular and the law should take its effect. But as for the witch-hunt
of others, that is a waste of time. If you keep on chasing the wrong
things, you will not do the right things. But that does not mean anyone
who has done evil should get away with it”.
He added, “What
Nigeria needs now are not so much of restitution. Some stolen funds that
were sent back to Nigeria in the past went into wrong hands. What
Nigeria needs is a clear example of good governance, the rule of law as
against the rule of men.
“On the rule of men, might is right. On
the rule of law, right is might. So if you can get ‘right is might’ in
place, if you do something wrong and you are punished for it, those who
have the desires to do similar things will know that there are
consequences for their choices, that is where we are going. I can tell
you that witch-hunt is not something that President Buhari would
support. Perish the thought, it is not his character”.
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