General Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has denied claims of endorsing the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and criticizing the Christian Association of Nigeria for speaking up against the APC's choice of a Muslim-Muslim ticket for the 2023 presidential election and the controversial appearance of "clergymen" at the unveiling of Kashim Shettima as APC's vice-presidential candidate.

In a statement titled 'Reffutal: The statements credited to me are outright lies', Bakare described the statements credited to him as "concocted and ridiculous" and accused "unscrupulous writers and bloggers" of being responsible for them.

Bakare challenged anyone who had evidence to show that he made the statements and credited him to the evidence to the public.

He said;




“Amongst other things, I was quoted to have said that the ?agitations by the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, were ploys by the opposition party, PDP, to force a weak candidate on APC. In addition to this, I was alleged to have said that CAN wanted to lure APC into presenting a weak candidate.

“The spurious writers also alleged that I stressed that Christians are righteous people who behave like Christ, and that CAN are politicians who behave like PDP.

“As if the poorly strewn lies were not enough, I was quoted as saying that Tinubu is my candidate.

“Isn’t this the same Tinubu that I announced to all and sundry at the APC Presidential Convention that I was not stepping down for? He has suddenly become my candidate!

“I wish to state unequivocally that the statements are absolute lies. There was nowhere I granted anyone any interview or preached on any platform, where I said the ludicrous statements.

“I challenge anyone who is in possession of the video or audio file of the statements to please put it in the public space.

“For the avoidance of doubt, I am a nation builder who will not in any way create real or imaginary division among the people of our great country, through the medium of political parties or religion.”

Source: https://aderonkebamidele.com/pastor-tunde-bakare-denies-endorsing-tinubu-and-criticizing-can/