2023: Pastor Bakare purchases N100 million presidential nomination form

Pastor Tunde Bakare on Thursday joined the 2023 presidential aspirants as he purchased the N100 million presidential nomination form to contest on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He is the founder of the Citadel Global Community Church in Lagos, saying he want to serve God and the people.

In a statement he issued and made available to journalists on Thursday, Bakare who was the running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari when he contested on Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011 said he was joining the presidential race now that he had previously been involved in nation building in several capacities.

“It is with utmost humility, therefore, that I write to formally inform you — distinguished citizens of our nation, elder statesmen and stateswomen, political leaders, traditional leaders, overseers of religious establishments, members of civil society, policymakers, students, public servants from the national and sub-national levels of government, stakeholders from the private sector, the intelligentsia, opinion moulders, thought leaders from various institutions of knowledge, and every Nigerian, home and abroad — of my intention to contest.

The Clergy said he will rebuild Nigeria into a nation if elected President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He recalled his role in the civic space when he convened ‘Save Nigeria Group’, a coalition of civil society groups that facilitated the rightful recognition of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, first as Acting President, and then as substantive president, through a grassroots people movement and high-level advocacy.

Speaking on his capacity to preside over the nation, Bakare pointed out that he was the one that proposed the Nigerian Charter for National Reconciliation and Integration when he was a delegate to the National Conference in 2014.

“Furthermore, I have been actively involved in awakening collective citizen ownership through the pulpit as the founding Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as The Latter Rain Assembly.

“I have, in addition, contributed to engendering social, political and economic shifts in Nigeria through propositional platforms, including through such initiatives as the New Nigeria Dialogues, the inaugural event of a think-tank I founded in 2009. I have also provided pro bono advisory services to government institutions through key policy inputs, while fostering coalition-building across divides, in addition to building thriving businesses in diverse sectors.

“I have remained committed to harnessing my local and international networks, platforms and resources towards the emergence of the New Nigeria.”

Bakare who was a former Vice-Presidential candidate to Muhammadu Buhari during the 2011 elections under the Congress for Progressive said he offered himself to serve and work with Nigerians towards the peace, progress, and prosperity of the country.