Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare, former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dino Melaye, and former Minister of the FCT, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, made the call on
Saturday, 16 August 2014
Pastor Bakare, El-Rufai, Dino Melaye, Call For Protests Over Bad Leadership
Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare, former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dino Melaye, and former Minister of the FCT, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, made the call on
Pastors Are Taking Corrupt Money from Politicians ––Pastor Bakare
Convener, Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has accused some church leaders in the country of aiding and abetting corruption.
“The church has failed the nation. Worst oppression is going on in the churches today. Most churches encourage corrupt leaders by failing to tell them the truth and collecting their money.”The Serving Overseer of The Latter Rain Assembly also said some churches not only encourage and harbour corrupt individuals, but also receive ill-gotten money from them.
Pastor Bakare said this while delivering a speech in preparation for
the first anniversary of the Occupy Nigeria Protest in Lagos on Sunday.
Speaking on the theme, ‘Corruption and the Soul of the Nation’, the lawyer turned Pastor regretted that corruption had robbed the country of the chance to realise its potential.
He said, “It cripples a nation’s character and drains her of substance. We are confronted daily with news and reports of executive corruption in high places, assaulted with a legal system that has long lost respect for the sacredness of justice.
“We have resorted to worshipping and preserving certain sacred cows and even their sires. We have a social system that makes a mockery of a country and her feeble efforts at self-reclamation to the end that even her entire existence becomes a running joke.
“This is not mere alarmism. Our country has long been distorted by corruption and it has progressively eroded her strength and undermined her potential.”
Recalling the protest against the fuel subsidy removal in January last year, Pastor Bakare said it was a collective resolve by Nigerians to fight against injustice and oppression.
“The protest was unprecedented that Nigerians across the country, irrespective of religion and ethnic identification, resisted the subsidy removal on such a scale.
“From a little band of people who began to protest and clamour that Nigeria must be occupied, it steadily grew into a mammoth movement as each one told his neighbour that this was a chance to snatch our country back. While it lasted, people were energised. They wanted to question the answers they already had on the state of affairs in the country,” he said.
Speaking on the theme, ‘Corruption and the Soul of the Nation’, the lawyer turned Pastor regretted that corruption had robbed the country of the chance to realise its potential.
He said, “It cripples a nation’s character and drains her of substance. We are confronted daily with news and reports of executive corruption in high places, assaulted with a legal system that has long lost respect for the sacredness of justice.
“We have resorted to worshipping and preserving certain sacred cows and even their sires. We have a social system that makes a mockery of a country and her feeble efforts at self-reclamation to the end that even her entire existence becomes a running joke.
“This is not mere alarmism. Our country has long been distorted by corruption and it has progressively eroded her strength and undermined her potential.”
Recalling the protest against the fuel subsidy removal in January last year, Pastor Bakare said it was a collective resolve by Nigerians to fight against injustice and oppression.
“The protest was unprecedented that Nigerians across the country, irrespective of religion and ethnic identification, resisted the subsidy removal on such a scale.
“From a little band of people who began to protest and clamour that Nigeria must be occupied, it steadily grew into a mammoth movement as each one told his neighbour that this was a chance to snatch our country back. While it lasted, people were energised. They wanted to question the answers they already had on the state of affairs in the country,” he said.
Revelations About The Dreaded Sambisa Forest & The 200 Girls
Nigerians and the world must know what the true situation in Sambisa and other forests in Borno is. It
The Truth about Boko Haram, CIA, USA, Shekau & the 200 Girls
There are countless conspiracies being disseminated about the causes, failures
Boko Haram and the 200 Chibok Girls: The Uncomfortable Facts
Poverty & Terrorism Threaten the Foundations of Our Democracy
OPENING REMARKS BY ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU AT THE INAUGURAL LECTURE
OF THE FREEDOM HOUSE DEMOCRACY LECTURE SERIES HELD AT MUSON CENTER,
AGIP HALL, LAGOS, NIGERIA. JUNE 3OTH 2O14
POVERTY AND TERRORISM THREATEN THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR DEMOCRACY
I thank all of you for participating in this maiden Freedom House lecture on democracy. I want to express special appreciation to Professor Larry
This Our Democracy Is Now Being Threatened
I speak to you as an Activist, I speak to you as one of
those who participated and witnessed the struggle for democracy in this
country from 1985 to 1999. I speak as one who knows that nearly 5,000
people died within the same period. I speak as the Author of the Book;
Heroes of Democracy published in 1999. I speak as one who has seen it
all in Nigeria’s quest for democracy and rule of law.
Gentlemen and women, given the activities of President
Goodluck Jonathan and PDP today it is now obvious that total war has
been
Open Letter to the APC leadership: Rescuing Nigeria from PDP’s Misguided Vision In 2015
By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze
After 15 years of uninterrupted democracy, it is important on this
august occasion of May 29, 2014, to write this special letter on how to
rescue our dear nation from the hands of unprepared and clueless
leadership piloting the affairs of our nation at the moment which, if
not checked, may collapse this country in line with earlier predictions
by United States of America, and other prophets of doom.In this regard, I write this open letter to the leaders of our great party, the All Progressives Congress
THE TRUTH: APC Will Lose In 2015 If They Continue Like This
Let me say categorically that I don’t subscribe to the sentiments of those who think APC is in trouble just because the party recently lost one of the States it controlled in its stronghold of South West. My thesis is very simple. The APC stands to gain from that shock treatment if its leaders are serious about remaining relevant in our political landscape. I have read many commentaries about what went wrong for APC in Ekiti State. Some are right, most are wrong.
Amaechi's Chief of Staff Empowers Women, APC Faithfuls
Chief of Staff to the Rivers State Governor, Chief Tony Okocha, has empowered over 65 women in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area as part of his efforts to put smiles on the faces of the womenfolk in the state. Okocha, who is the All Progressives Congress (APC) Leader in Obio/Akpor, sponsored two-week training for the women in various skills such as bead-making, sewing, catering, decoration and hair dressing.
Okocha Demystifies Nyesom Wike, As 'Hurricane Amaechi' Blows Through Obio-Akpor
Wike’s loud boasts of being the political strongman of the area were
exposed as tissues of lies by his own people as Governor Chibuike Rotimi
Amaechi, the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum
EXPLOSIVE! My Candid Take On 2015 by Dele Momodu
“It always seems impossible until it is done”
– Nelson Mandela
Fellow Nigerians, please let’s not deceive ourselves, the race for the
2015 elections has started in earnest. The gladiators are virtually
ready and the bullets are already flying. In our clime, elections are
fought like war. And nothing is spared because a Nigerian politician
believes all is fair on the battlefield. I shall endeavour to lay my
permutations bare, and try to situate the strengths and weaknesses of
the different groups.
Alamieyeseigha Is A Thief Abroad But To Jonathan He Is Not...
The seizure of Alamieyeseigha’s U.S. corrupt
Bisi Akanda Speaks On Buhari, Jonathan, Amaechi and 2015
You were quoted as saying that the All Progressives Congress is not so keen on the presidency come 2015. What then is your focus?
I will rather say I was misquoted. How would there be a major party in
2013 and such party will not be keen about 2015? We are very much keen
about
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