Prominent Nigerian cleric and political commentator Pastor Tunde Bakare has denied mocking the African Democratic Congress (ADC) or victims of the 2006 ADC airline disaster, saying his reference to the tragedy during a recent press briefing was a metaphor about leadership, not a slight. Bakare, who leads the Citadel Global Community Church and chairs the…
The Presiding Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC) Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged Nigerian leaders to immortalise former president Muhammadu Buhari with good governance. Bakare, an associate of the late Awujale of Ijebu Land, Oba Sikiru Adetona and the late former president, Buhari, made the appeal at a news conference on Sunday to…
President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday received Pastor Tunde Bakare, founder of the Citadel Global Community Church, at his Lagos residence, where both men held a private discussion focused on Nigeria’s future. Bakare, a former presidential aspirant under the All Progressives Congress (APC), told journalists after the meeting that his lifelong vision remains the emergence of…
The Senate has responded to recent remarks by Pastor Tunde Bakare, describing his comments on the National Assembly as misleading, politically motivated, and indicative of a poor understanding of the legislature’s constitutional responsibilities. In a statement issued to journalists yesterday in Abuja, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Yemi…
