Nigerian pastor, Tunde Bakare has played down the importance of power rotation in Nigeria.
Bakare said that leaders should be judged from ‘not where they come from, but what they have to offer’.
He said this while speaking to State House correspondents after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Friday.
“I’d said it on the 3rd of October. It’s our immaturity, politically and otherwise, that makes us say power must either be in the North or be in the South, instead of looking for the best, the fittest, the most competent, and people of character who love this nation,” Bakare said.
“Listen to me, if where the president comes from will make the place he has come from to be better, the Northern part of Nigeria should be richest and should be the most progressive and the most developed because out of 61 years, the North has produced either the president or heads of state for 40 to 41 years and yet, see the retrogression in the North.
“If it’s from the South, why should a person like former President Olusegun Obasanjo freeze and seize the account of Lagos State in his own tenure? If it’s from South-South or South East, why couldn’t former President Goodluck Jonathan use all his powers to develop South-South/South East?
“Not where they come from, it’s what they carry and what they have to offer. May the best of the best of Nigerians rise, whether they’re from the East, from the West, from the North, and from the South.
“If there are agreements between politicians among themselves on rotation, a bargain is a bargain. That’s between them. But as far as this country is concerned, what we need at this stage is a man who can drive us to the Eldorado.”
Tunde Bakare, I see you as a mere political Church leader. Your pastoral-political nuances are conflicting. Think more critically, please, about the complexities of the Nigerian situation. Your argument here only applies within a closely tied, freely civilized entity. There is an endemic power greed and regional parallel interests in Nigeria that defy the normative you have raised in your argument.
As a man of God don’t claim to be Yoruba but a man of truth. You love culture and hate the only way,truth and Life. Wake up from slumber or you will not board the train .