Ondo Poll: Pastor Bakare told to bury his face in shame

FOLA ADEMOSU

Action Congress of Nigeria, Lagos Chapter, has asked the Senior Pastor, Latter Rain Assembly and Vice Presidential candidate, Congress of Progress Change, CPC, Tunde Bakare, to bury his head in shame over his penchant for making false prophesy that never came to pass.

Chief Henry Ajomale, the party’s chairman, spoke to P.M.News against Bakare’s prediction of a landslide victory for the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Governor Olusegun Mimiko, in the 20 October governorship election in Ondo State.

Bakare made the forecast at his church’s headquarters in Akilo-Ogba, on 7 October, amid a volley of innuedoes that left no one in doubt as to the direction it was headed.

ACN candidate and former President, Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Barrister Rotimi Akeredolu, is a serious contender for the election, alongside 10 others.

But Ajomale disagreed. He said: “The man sometimes talk out of tune. He should bury his head in shame because most of the predictions he has made have turned to be false and opposite. So, if he says we would lose, then it meant we would win.

He predicted [former President Olusegun] Obasanjo would lose his election, but the man won. He predicted he would die, the man is still living. So what type of a man of God is that?”, he queried.

Bakare also alleged that the national leaders of the ACN sold out their presidential candidate, Nuhu Ribadu, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2011 presidential election for a princely sum of money and challenged them to rebutt his avowal.

Ajomale countered, stating that there was no decision or agreement by his party to trade-off Ribadu.

“We knew the role religion played in the 2011 presidential election. The sentiment of [President Goodluck] Jonathan being a Christain worked in his favour because he was the man who many Christain-voters wanted at the time.

If a man of God cannot get his facts right before speaking to the public, then we are in trouble”, he said.

He advised the fiery pastor to first examine himself properly and asked why it was difficult for him to win Lagos State for his party, trailing behind the ACN in the election. “He is inconsequential as far as politics is concerned. He has no say in the politics in Lagos and should at least have won the state for his party”, he added.

Bakare during a sermon had said that “Mimiko will win hands down in Ondo State and nothing would happen. Thereafter, he will muster strength and there will be an alternative party as people would begin to see leadership by living right and not by material acquisition of flying jets over the people that you want to vote for you”.

He warned against violence during the election, saying “If anybody thinks they can perpetrate any violence in Ondo State, violence will consume the perpetrator of violence,” he said.