Controversial pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly,
Lagos, Tunde Bakare, has said a national leader
of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, does not belong in the same class with
the former Premier of Western Region, Obafemi
Awolowo, and does not deserve to take the place
of the late sage as the leader of the Yoruba race.
He admitted that both leaders made unique
contributions in bringing the race together, but
Mr. Awolowo belonged to a special breed created
by God and was only in the class of world
leaders like Mahatma Gandhi of India.

The Pentecostal pastor stated this in an
interview published in the second edition of
Abuja-based magazine, The Interview.
Mr. Tinubu, who was governor of Lagos State
from 1999-2007, holds the title of Asiwaju, one
of the numerous titles also held by the late
premier of Western region, who passed away in
1987.

Asiwaju, a Yoruba word translated in English
means “the frontline leader”. Mr. Awolowo founded the Egbe Omo Oduduwa in the 40’s to promote the culture and unity of the Yoruba. In 1951, he founded the Action Group, a political party that ran for elections in the First Republic.
He later founded the Unity Party of Nigeria,
which swept the governorship polls in all the
states in the old Western State as well as the old
Bendel State in the Second Republic.

Tinubu, a Senator in the botched Third Republic,
apart from being Lagos governor for eight years,
was the architect behind the merger of some
opposition political parties into the APC, which
went on to defeat the ruling party for the first
time since the return to democratic rule during
the last general elections.

The APC not only produced the President of the
country, it controls both chambers of the
National Assembly and 22 states, including five
of the six states in the Southwest.
But Bakare, who was running mate to President
Muhammadu Buhari in 2011 under the platform
of defunct Congress for Progressive Change,
CPC, said the APC leader was yet to cross the
kind of rivers Mr. Awolowo crossed.
“What major river did he (Tinubu) cross?” Mr.
Bakare fired back when asked by his interviewer
if the former governor was not qualified to take
the place of the sage, who is widely described as
the last authentic leader of the Yoruba.
Reminded that Tinubu was the major engineer of
the merger that helped to bring the Yoruba
together, the fiery preacher said, “And you think
it was only Bola Tinubu who made that possible.
I see. Which one came first, the chicken or the
egg?” He stated further, “Well, the answer is in the Bible. You are a preacher yourself. God first
created the bird of the air and not eggs. The
birds laid the eggs. If you see the picture of
patriots and Nigerian leaders here, they are all a
collapse of his. "The people who are attempting to wear his (Awolowo) glasses do not have his vision, they attempt to wear his cap but do not have his
brain, they attempt to wear his shoes but do not
walk his ways. Show me the empire that
Awolowo built with public funds. To a Yoruba
man, there is no concept greater than Omoluabi.
“If you get to my father’s grave in a hut he built
in 1922, which is now a museum, there is an
inscription ‘bibire koshefowora” which means
you cannot buy a good pedigree or familial
background. “I am not trying to take the shine off Tinubu’s efforts; he had laboured but he is not in the same class with Awolowo. Regardless of how
many rivers he crosses, he is still Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu and Awolowo is Awolowo.
“I have seen some paintings and pictures out
there of Mahatma Gandhi, Awolowo and others
and I just laugh and wonder why people can’t be
themselves. When God needed a Mahatma
Gandhi, he created one. So he did when he
wanted an Awolowo. He created a T.D Jakes
when he needed one.
“A young man once went to T.D. Jakes and said,
‘Pray for me that God will bless me and make me
like you.’ T.D.Jakes asked him, “Are you sure.”
“He said ‘Yes’ and T.D. Jakes said, “Let us pray.
May you be homeless, go through hardship,’ and
the young man jumped up and said ‘no, no, no,
no, “and T.D. Jakes said, “That is what produces
results”. Mr. Bakare said books Mr. Awolowo authored were still relevant today.
“You need to see books he (Awolowo) wrote and
how they are still relevant today”, he said,
adding that “Years after he left the scene, he is
still the numero uno Yoruba leader. Eagles don’t
flock. You see one at a time”.



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Ok

That one is certain before

No politician of this era can be in the same class with. The Great Awolowo #Fact!

When all is said and done, there is more said than done...

Very instructive piece from the fiery Pentecostal Pastor, cept for some of us (non yorubas) omo...whats that sef? Can't decipher it. Some one should kindly translate the word or its contextual meaning. Nagode, infe da kitde( thanks in tangale Gombe state)