The overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), pastor Tunde Bakare has
condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Kano for a wedding.
Bakare, who was Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 presidential election,
while addressing his church congregation on Sunday, expressed surprise
that the president attended the wedding. He wondered what the
president was doing at the Kano wedding, while 110 Dapchi schoolgirls
are still in captivity.
Buhari alongside National leader of the APC,
Bola Tinubu and 22 state governors were in Kano on Saturday to celebrate
the wedding of Idris Ajimobi and Fatima Ganduje, children of Abiola
Ajimobi, and Ibrahim Ganduje.
Bakare stated that the wedding, which came two days after Boko Haram
killed some UN aid workers in Rann shows the insensitivity of Nigerian
leaders.
“Forgive my ill-mannerism, but I could not comprehend why a governor
will celebrate the wedding of his daughter, and another governor of his
son, on the front pages of newspapers, flashing it before our eyes, when
other peoples’ daughters are in captivity,” Bakare said.
“If any of them had lost a daughter in that captivity, would they
celebrate that way? I know the Bible says rejoice with them that
rejoice, but I do not know what the president of Nigeria was doing
there.
“And somebody came to say, let me explain to you, it is Islamic
tradition, before this time, about January, they had agreed, that he
(Buhari) will be the one to give the bride away and (Bola) Tinubu will
be the one to pay the dowry, and present the son, and they agreed long
before now.
“I looked at him and said the president of Nigeria wanted to come to
my daughter’s wedding, and I said to him, sir, don’t come. That is
beneath your office. Face the work of the state and keep serving.
“And 22 governors showed up to mark register, when 110 daughters of
citizens of your nation were captured by Boko Haram that you said you
have already technically defeated?
“It just shows how insensitive our leaders are. We have gotten to a
stage that our president has become a king and a monarch. That his son
who rode his pleasurable bike that almost claimed his life, will be
returning from an overseas trip, where he had received special
healthcare that Nigerians cannot afford, that it took a whole minister
of state to go and welcome him, because he has no job.”
Bakare further speaking, said anyone who knows how much debt Nigeria owes will weep for the country.
“If you truly know the truth, you will weep, if you know how much we
are owing as a nation, you will weep. For 16 years of PDP they borrowed
N6 trillion, for three years of APC, they borrowed N11 trillion.
“And they are not going to pay the debt. You and I, and our children,
and our children’s children will pay the debt, unless they write them
off again.”