I’m Beginning To Believe There’s A Cabal In Buhari’s Govt – Tunde Bakare

Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly has said he is disposed to “believe the theory of a cabal” in President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

Bakare, who was Buhari’s presidential running mate in 2011, expressed disappointment that the ‘change’ promised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) is far-fetched.

Speaking during his appearance on Channel TV’s Sunday Politics, the pastor cum politician said the Buhari regime had performed “woefully”.

Bakare said, “No matter how you look at it, this is not the government we all hoped for. This is not what we thought this government that promised change in the beginning would perform so woefully. Any right thinking Nigerian would agree with that.

“You can blame the past administration but you knew what you were going into even if you didn’t know all of it. They could have done better than what they have done. They themselves know that.

“I once did a video; ‘the Buhari I know’. And I meant every word. I sincerely did that video. I hope I will not be pushed to do a video, ‘the Buhari I didn’t know’.

“So many things had happened that I couldn’t even figure out. You must know that I must have been pushed to the wall before I spoke.

“They have forgotten that I marched when I didn’t know Jonathan. I didn’t think it was time for me to march again so I didn’t bother to march.”

“I must give something to President Muhammadu Buhari, every time I had sought an opportunity to see him, he opened the door. And I had gone with different recommendations just as others have done,” he said.

“But, perhaps at implementation state, I did not know whether to believe the theory of a cabal or the wicked around the throne of the righteous. Because he alone cannot deliver all these things. A tree does not make a forest.

“The type of leader you are will determine the type of people you will attract to yourself.”

On whether President Buhari is “nepotic” as recently alleged by former President Olusegun Obasanko, Bakare said, “I had no reason at a time with him to believe he was ever nepotic.”

“Because he did say to me he will assemble the best and the brightest and the fittest; east, west, north and south of the country to fix this country.

“But when I read what Obasanjo wrote, and I read the list of key appointments made, you begin to think did they just put the thing on his table to sign or this is just what he did deliberately.

“That’s food for thought.”