The Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church in Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, says he was not paid by anyone to shower praises on a former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu.
Bakare, who had criticised Tinubu in the past, had sparked controversy last week when he turned around to sing his praises.
The cleric compared the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Biblical Jephthah, claiming that he fought and won many battles for the Yoruba people.
Bakare further said Tinubu delivered Lagos State and nearly all the South-West states from the
“onslaught of the PDP from 1999 to 2007.”
Addressing his congregation on Sunday in a sermon titled ‘There is None Holy as the Lord’, the preacher slammed those who criticised his latest comments on the former Lagos governor.
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He told his critics that no one is rich enough to buy him because he has already been bought “by the Blood of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary”.
Bakare, while describing his critics as ‘undertakers,’ urged those with proof that he was bribed to speak out.
“One would have thought that the whole message of over an hour would be listened to so that the context of the clip that went viral would be understood before judgment is passed by those who considered us to have taken a 360-turnaround compared to the thoughts we had taken previously about the man many love to hate and many hate to love,” he said.
“Instead, the bath water and the baby were both thrown out by some self-appointed undertakers who think the way forward in our dilemma as a nation is to uproot the tares and separate them from the wheat long before the harvest time ordained by God.
“The same undertakers willfully forget that the current mixture of the bad, the good, and the ugly in the polity are a result of the negligence of our past and present leaders, who slept on duty and allowed the enemy to sow the tares while the good man had planted good seeds on the ground.”
Bakare noted that his praise of Tinubu’s political success was not an approval of his lifestyle.
“As a matter of fact, this past week, this set of individuals went to the extreme of calling me delusional, while others concluded that money must have changed hands for me to say the things that were said contrary to my previous stand concerning the same person.
“You think somebody will pay me for what I am doing? No one is rich enough to do it. No one in this country or elsewhere is rich enough. And I am not for sale because I have been bought. I was bought by the Blood of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary and no other price can match that. And if you know of anyone who has given me money at any time to do what I am doing, expose it,” the cleric said.
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