Tunde Bakare is one of the reasons we ended up with Buhari. But he was not alone. Many of us are equally guilty, including the PDP that gave us the reason to look for better alternatives.
By Achike Chude
You probably saw the video sometime in 2019. He was on the pulpit dancing and prancing as usual. He had obviously had one of his trances and was in the ‘spirit.’ And as the spirit took full control of him, he began to utter words of prophecy straight from ‘heaven.’ He spoke like Jesus in the fullness of his divinity, though still clothed in human mortality.
Hear him!
“Take it to the mountain top, if you have never heard it before. I am saying it to you this morning in the scheme of things as far as politics of Nigeria is concerned, President Muhammadu Buhari is number 15 and yours sincerely I am number 16.”
And as he made this earth shattering proclamation that the heavens had decreed him to be president of Nigeria, the congregation was thrown into a frenzy. They jumped and skipped all over the auditorium, hands raised in the glorification of the almighty that a saviour of Nigeria had been born into their church.
But Pastor Tunde Bakare was not done. He drove home the message forcefully:
Hear ye, hear ye:
“I have never said that to you before, I have never said that to you before,” he continued in a paroxysm of excitement. “I make it plain to you this morning, I let you know it this morning, nothing can change it in the name of Jesus; he is number 15, and I am number 16. To this end I was born, for this purpose came I into the world.”
And then the clincher:
“I have prepared you for this purpose for more than 30 years. That is why if he (Buhari) wants to run in 2019, I do not oppose, he is still number 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 Joshua to go to the other side and begin to distribute resources for the people of this nation.”
President Buhari is Moses? President Buhari to take Nigeria to River Jordan?
So far he has taken Nigeria to the vicinity of hell. With university teachers (ASSU) on strike for months, and Terrorists, Bandits, and murderous Herdsmen having a ball or party in the northern forests of Nigeria? There is increasing violence as well in the southern parts of our country and the collapse of our national grid as well as our hospitals in absolute degradation, coupled with hunger along the length and breadth of our country, and Nigerians escaping abroad in droves?
Buhari is Moses?
Tunde Bakare is one of the reasons we ended up with Buhari. But he was not alone. Many of us are equally guilty, including the PDP that gave us the reason to look for better alternatives.
And we then moved from the frying pan into the fire.
But we must remember that the man at the Citadel, formerly known as The Latter Rain Assembly had a dire warning of doom and calamity for Obasanjo in 1999:
“Obasanjo is not your messiah,” he shouted. “He is king Agag and the prophetic axe will come upon his head before May 29, 1999.”
And as he uttered this warning, Nigerians waited with trepidation and anxiety and fear for the axe to fall on Obasanjo who is ‘Agag.’ They waited and waited, and waited until May 29th 1999, and Obasanjo who was described as Agag was sworn in and became president. The prophecy had failed.
Now he has taken it upon himself to release the Igbos from the curse of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, a curse that is said to prevent them from being president in Nigeria for 25 years.
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It is amazing to see that a single individual could wield so much spiritual power over the destiny of an entire people. You mean that anybody can just get up, place a curse on a tribe and the tribe is bound by that curse?
And that the only solution is for Pastor Tunde Bakare to break that curse by calling upon heaven?
Or it this about the 2023 elections?
We know how desperate politicians become during elections. We know how they whip up dangerous sentiments to keep the people divided for the purpose of exploiting them for electoral gains. Our duty is to resist their gimmicks, to understand that we share a common destiny regardless of our ethnic, geo-political or religious differences for as long as our federation is called the Nigerian Federation.
We have always stated that Nigerians know how to live with one another in peace without the diabolical intervention and interference of the elites. The fear and threat of Fulani domination, the acts of terrorism, the banditry, and the various agitations for secession all stem from the malfeasance of the elites which have been especially heightened during the Buhari presidency. To mix our dangerous political situation with a dose of religious subterfuge would create even greater confusion within the polity.
What happened to the Chris Okotie presidential declaration of 1993, or similarly, the Gabriel Oduyemi presidential prophecy on behalf of Ezebuiro or the matter of the pidgins that refused to fly at Father Mbaka’s Adoration Ground, as well as his support for the Buhari presidency on behalf of God? – a presidency that has become both a national disaster and calamity.
God is not a liar. Man is.
If a prophesy is made in His name and on His behalf and it does not come to pass, then the prophet has told a lie and his credential becomes a subject of suspicion and ridicule.
Indeed, scriptures has a say on this:
“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing … Their visions are false and their divinations a lie. They say, ‘The LORD declares,’ when the LORD has not sent them; yet they expect their words to be fulfilled.” (Ezekiel 13:3-6).
We await for the time when number 16 will replace number 15 to become the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. If it does not happen, then number 16 is a purveyor of falsehood.
God will not be made a liar.
Not ever!