I am Not For Sale, I Have Been Bought - Bakare

Head Pastor of the Citadel Global Community Church, Tunde Bakare, has come down on critics who say that he was paid for his remarks in defense of the former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu; stating that he was not for sale and was already bought.

Bakare said that his message was too quickly read by critics and not properly digested to get the context of his message but decided to pass judgment.

He said that those who criticised him for the commendations of Tinubu.

In his previous message, Bakare had said of the former governor, “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.

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“Truth be told, without his cooperation and political dexterity, the APC victory at the polls in 2015 and 2019 would have been impossible.”

Responding to critics, Bakare said that no one was rich enough to pay him for what he was doing and that anyone that had any information on who had paid him should come forward.

He said, “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 listened to 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.

“Instead, the bathwater 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 wilfully 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.

“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.