The new National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ajibola Basiru, has knocked the Serving Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, saying he is not competent to speak on President Bola Tinubu’s reforms, especially in the wake of the controversial fuel subsidy removal.
The former spokesman for the ninth Senate made the claim when he featured on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Sunday night.
Bakare had stirred the hornet’s nest when he told his congregation during his Sunday sermon that he warned against the ‘Emilokan’ kind of politics.
Emilokan, which literarily translated to ‘It’s my turn’ in Yoruba dialect, was a popular slogan introduced by Tinubu in his 2023 pre-election campaign.
In the State of the Nation broadcast at his Lagos church, the fiery pastor emphasised that ’emilokan’ was an epitome of authoritarianism, recalling that he warned Nigerians in January the politics of…
