Pastor Tunde Bakara of the Citadel Church, Lagos has lambasted the government of President Tinubu. During his Easter Sunday State of the nation address, Bakare urged citizens to declare state of emergency on governance. Below are the highlights of the address arranged in no particular order.
- 1. In moments such as this, when hope, far from being renewed, is depleted; it is in moments like this that truth becomes as precious as oxygen.
2. The happenings in Rivers State is the theatre of the absurd with puppets on
strings controlled
by directors in
Abuja.
3. The National Assembly undertook a dance of shame in their rush to suspend the constitution and endorse, through the backdoor, the usurpation of powers by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
4. The Senate’s shamelessly embarked in a bid to silence Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for demanding that the President of the Nigerian Senate uphold the moral standards required of that office.
5. The two main contenders in the ongoing institutional immorality are the executive and the legislature.
6. The quality of leadership in Nigeria has become so repugnant that citizens must declare a state of emergency on governance, demanding that every aspiring public officeholder undergo rigorous psychiatric evaluation before seeking election.
7. Senator Onyekachi Nwebonyi’s descent into street-level vitriol with Oby Ezekwesili was an affront to the essence of the Senate.
8. The National Assembly is the 48th member of Tinubu’s cabinet.
9. On your mandate we stand is the international anthem of sycophants
10. At the centre of the political banditry is the motor-park brand of politics nurtured by the old brigade politicians and recently by President bola Ahmed Tinubu.
11. Mr. President, under your influence, the national Assembly has become a haven for legislative rascality.
12. Under your watch, the National Assembly has become an extension of the executive, grossly violating the principle of separation of power.
13. The National Assembly has become the most spineless in recent history.
14. A cabinet member, wyke, wike or wake-keep has become the adulterant state governor of Rivers State pampered by the President.
15. Think of the mass grave in Bassa, Jos into which over fifty of our citizens were lowered.
16. Think of the sense of foreboding, hunger, sorrow, shame, and of utter hopelessness, we may be moved in our broken humanity….
