The serving overseer of Citadel Global Community Church formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly Pastor Tunde Bakare has knocked Yoruba leaders who are in contention with the ancestry of a former governor of Lagos Bola Tinubu.
Bakare who had most times shared opposing views with Tinubu extolled him during a sermon at the church’s recently unveiled Citadel in Lagos.
Preaching on the topic ‘An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop,’ Bakare likened Tinubu to Jephtaph in the Bible who delivered his people despite the circumstances of his birth.
“I have a word for some Yoruba people whose stock in trade is nothing but a rancorous noise characterised by bitterness and resentment about the ancestry of the former two-term governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Bakare said.
“Carry your stone. I have a word for those Yoruba rancorous elements, noisemakers who have not achieved much as Asiwaju Tinubu has achieved, but are always querying and worrying themselves about his ancestry.
“His traducers are quick to tell you, he’s from Iragbiji; that is where Jephthah came from, that is where he came from. As if that will resolve the issues we have today. Hear me loud and clear, knowing the name of Asiwaju’s mother or father or his place of birth cannot put food on the table of the hungry or create jobs for the unemployed.
“Despite his growing up challenges, the dents and the detours of his life, he like Jephthah delivered Lagos state and nearly all the southwest states from the onslaught of the PDP from 1999 to 2007.
“Truth be told, without his cooperation and political dexterity, the APC victory at the polls in 2015 and 2019 would have been impossible.”
Bakare said he is not Tinubu’s brand manager, but all he knows is that “just as every saint has a past, every sinner has a future, and the best of men are still men at the very best.”
