Pastor Bakare Denies Endorsing Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim Ticket, Speaking Against CAN

The General Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare has denied claims that he endorsed the Muslim-Muslim ticket fielded by the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Tunde Bakare Denies Working Against CAN For Tinubu

KanyiDaily recalls that APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu had picked his fellow Muslim, Kashim Shettima, a former Borno State Governor, as his running mate for the 2023 presidential election.

Reacting to the development, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) kicked against the Muslim-Muslin ticket, saying the APC has no regard for the diversity of the country.

Pastor Bakare, who was also an APC presidential aspirant, was accused of working against the CAN on the Muslim-Muslim ticket by Tinubu and Shettima.

Reacting in a statement issued on his Facebook page, Pastor Bakare said the allegations are propaganda of the mischievous ones seeking approval by deceit and at all costs.

The statement reads, “My attention has been drawn to the viral but concocted and ridiculous statements credited to me, by some unscrupulous writers and bloggers. Amongst other things, I was quoted to have said that the agitations by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), were ploys by the opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), to force a weak candidate on APC.

“In addition to this, I was alleged to have said that CAN wanted to lure APC into presenting a weak candidate. The spurious writers also alleged that I stressed that Christians are righteous people who behave like Christ, and that CAN are politicians who behave like PDP.

“As if the poorly strewn lies were not enough, I was quoted as saying that Tinubu is my candidate. Isn’t this the same Tinubu that I announced to all and sundry at the APC Presidential Convention that I was not stepping down for? He has suddenly become my candidate!

“I wish to state unequivocally that the statements are absolute lies. There was nowhere I granted anyone any interview, or preached on any platform, where I said the ludicrous statements. I challenge anyone who is in possession of the video or audio file of the statements to please put it in the public space.

“For the avoidance of doubt, I am a nation builder who will not in any way create real or imaginary division among the people of our great country, through the medium of political parties or religion.

“I therefore use this medium to ask everyone to disregard the alleged statements. The statements are not mine, and do not in any way represent my position.

“This is part of the lying propaganda of the mischievous ones seeking approval by deceit and at all costs. If the peddlers of this deliberate falsehood don’t desist from their highly condemnable acts, they will definitely have their day in court. Enough is enough“.

Meanwhile, the presence of some attendees attired in bishop’s cassock at the unveiling of Kashim Shettim has continued to generate controversies as many Christians insist the ‘bishops’ were “fake.”