The General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) is not what the founding members of the party envisaged.
Bakare, who was one of the founding stakeholders of APC and one of the party’s presidential aspirants in the 2022 primaries, said this on Sunday during a State of the Nation broadcast at the church in Ikeja, Lagos.
In his speech titled ‘Vice, Virtue, and Time: Three Things That Never Stand Still,’ the cleric and politician said the APC he joined to form had deviated from the principles it was founded on, adding that the party has now been hijacked by politicians with no ideology.
Bakare added that the results from the 2023 presidential polls show that Nigerians are fed up with the APC.
He said, “At this juncture, I must also sound a warning to the APC. I was there when the APC was formed, and the extent of my involvement is well documented. As a stakeholder and, more importantly, as a nation-builder, I’m more obligated to state without equivocation that this is not the APC we envisaged. The results of the last elections were clear indications that Nigerians are fed up with what the APC has become.”
According to Bakare, the APC has now become a platform for politicians “with no ideology”, who moved from one party to the other to seek power at all costs.
“The APC stood for progressiveness characterized by substantial positive investment in social sectors such as education and healthcare, and it achieved inclusiveness and social mobility,” he added, saying this has changed over time given the current economic hardship being faced by many Nigerians, which he said was a result of “anti-people policies” of the government.
