{"id":4607,"date":"2015-03-18T08:59:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T08:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2015-03-18T08:59:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T08:59:54","slug":"i-trust-buhari-but-doubt-his-environment-and-bola-tinubu-pastor-tunde-bakare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4607","title":{"rendered":"I Trust Buhari, But Doubt His Environment and Bola Tinubu &#8211; Pastor Tunde Bakare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tunde.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4608\" alt=\"tunde\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tunde.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Tuesday said that he trusted the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) but not the credibility of \u201chis environment\u201d. The pastor spoke while addressing Christians at the annual Lenten lecture of the Island Club in Lagos.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cYes I trust Buhari and this is because I have worked closely with him but I doubt his environment. The Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress, which one is really clean? Only God can give us true leaders,<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI believe in contact without contamination,\u201d Bakare said.<\/p>\n<p>Bakare, who was Buhari&#8217;s running mate on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 presidential election, said he was not a politician but a nation-builder. He continued:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf General Buhari wins, let President Goodluck Jonathan accept defeat. Whoever loses is not a loser and if the winner is President Goodluck Jonathan, Buhari should accept this as the will of God.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 election is a serious crossroad and we might be playing with fire but with wisdom and prayer, we shall end well.<\/p>\n<div>Quote<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I am not a politician; I am not a PDP nor APC member. I am a nation-builder. Whoever I support is not the issue, God\u2019s will must prevail. My loyalty is first to God and to my country but God knows Nigeria\u2019s next president.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Tuesday said that he trusted the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) but not the credibility of \u201chis environment\u201d. The pastor spoke while addressing Christians at the annual Lenten lecture of the Island Club in Lagos. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tunde.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1cj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4609,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions\/4609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}