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IBB won’t be president in 2007 –Bakare
By Ademola Oni
Monday, 2 Oct 2006
 

The Serving Overseer of The Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday said the dream of a former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, to rule the nation in 2007 would fail.

Bakare, who spoke at a special programme of the church titled, ‘If the truth must be told” in Lagos, said the script to install Babangida was already being acted out.

He said, “As it is right now, only God can stop IBB from becoming the president of this nation again. You are likely to disagree but the strategy to bring him back has been perfected and the script is being acted out.

“But there is good news there because God has shown me how to stop him.”

The cleric, who did not tell his audience the strategy to stop the Minna-based General from becoming the president in 2007, added that none of the presidential front runners would make Aso Rock.

Bakare said, “Let me tell you the truth by the spirit of God, neither (President Olusegun Obasanjo), OBJ, Atiku (Abubakar), IBB and this tall one, (Muhammadu) Buhari are part of the new. They are part of the old that is decaying. That old one is passing away. The new is emerging and these ones are not part of that new.”

The pastor, whose prophecy in 1999, shortly after Obasanjo was elected president, caused a major outcry, said the prophecy was not informed by hatred for the person of the President or a dislike for the country.

He said, “I love my country and I love the President. I pray for my country too on regular basis. I do not wish Obasanjo or any other person any evil. But my concern is for my country and what God has put in my heart to tell the nation. I suppose that the over 1,000 pastors that gathered to pray against the March 7, 1999 prophecy now know better.”

Making references to his 1993 and 1999 prophecies, Bakare declared that only the counsel of God would prevail in the nation’s situations.

“When God warns his people, he only wants them to repent of their evil ways and seek forgiveness. God is not interested in killing anybody,” he said.

Supporting his message with illustrations, the pastor said those who “balanced the equation” in the deaths of (Sani) Abacha and MKO (Abiola) were still around and could play a major role in the present crisis rocking the Presidency.

Bakare in his statements couched in deep analogies, said of Nigeria’s present scenario, “By the present exposures that are going on between the President and his deputy, vipers eggs are being hatched, spiders’ webs are being woven. At the end, these will heat up the polity, heat up the system and make the nation ungovernable.

“It is also clear that your accomplice in crime will expose you.”

He warned against blood bath, saying that the nation could not afford another civil war.

On the leadership the nation desires, he said, “We do not need dishonest leaders, who are clever by half; who live in denials. We must reject body language politics in Nigeria. We do not need people who confuse personal account with the nation’s account.”