I’m under pressure to join ADC coalition – Tunde Bakare
By Jeffrey Agbo
Founder of the Citadel Global Community Church, Tunde Bakare, has disclosed that he is under intense pressure from prominent political figures to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC) opposition coalition.
Speaking on Saturday at the inaugural edition of the Citadel School of Governance Dialogue Series, Bakare said he has received persistent appeals from politicians, including a former governor and minister from the South-West, urging him to align with the ADC.
“There has been a lot of pressure on me from who is who to join ADC. They come to my home. Even while I was abroad, the hierarchy of that party kept calling, saying they needed my voice,” Bakare said.
The cleric revealed that even a younger political associate, who had benefitted from strategic roles in the All Progressives Congress (APC), encouraged him to lend his support to the ADC.
“I am not going to take part in ADC. The last time I knew about ADC was about a plane that crashed. I wish them well, because we need a robust opposition,” he said. “But you don’t birth a child called APC and then try to kill it yourself. We are not going to have another Awolowo-Akintola crisis in the south-west.”
Bakare also described President Bola Tinubu’s administration as divinely ordained.
“If God wants to remove ‘emilokan,’ He knows how to do it. You can’t get the kind of thing Tinubu has brought without God’s support,” he added.
Bakare contested the APC presidential primary in 2023, where Tinubu emerged as the party’s candidate. He had earlier served as the running mate to Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 presidential election on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), one of the parties that merged to form the APC in 2013.
