The serving Overseer of the Latter
Rain Assembly and Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunder Bakare, has
said that the July 23 attack on Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) would have led to
the disintegration of Nigeria had it succeeded.
Bakare, who was running mate to
Buhari in the 2011 presidential election, observed that Northern youths who
reverence Buhari would have resulted to mayhem and this would have led to
repraisals across the nation.
The clergyman said this while
addressing the nation on Sunday in a church service in Lagos.
He debunked insinuations in some
quarters that Buhari was in an armoured car provided by the presidency, noting that
“he (Buhari) was in a regular car”.
He added that the attack should have
made it clear to all that Buhari was not a Boko Haram sympathizer.
He said, “This past week might have
marked the beginning of the end if the attack on Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and his
entourage on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 had succeeded. The architects of the
Nigerian disintegration agenda would have been smiling home to the bank.
“All those Northern youths who see
him (Buhari) as a messaic symbol would have responded in unguided and
uncontrolable fury of a vengeful army and there would be corresponding violence
from the youthful population across the Niger.
“One need not to be a political
analyst to see that such action would have culminated in the demise of our
nation.”
Bakare noted that the military at
present was unable to adequately combat terrorism, noting that soldiers
confront members of the Boko Haram with “inferior weapons.”
He criticised President Goodluck
Jonathan for seeking to loan $1bn to fight terrorism, saying “the last time the
military was equipped was in the 1980s and there have been budgetary
allocations every year.
“The Senate say they want to
reconvene to consider the request and nobody is asking what happened to the
amount budgeted for security this year.”
He added that other factors
contributing to the manace were failure of intelligence, palpable government
incompetence, sinful silence of stakeholders, and international conspiracy.
The cleric noted that the reign of
terror should not be ascribed to religion but “sheer psychosis.”
He warned that traditional Islam and
radical Islam must not be grouped together, saying that radical Islam,
alongside zoning deprivation, oppression and injustice was the cause of
terrorism.
“To win this war, we must embark
forthwith on accurate diagnosis. There is a fundamental difference between
traditional Islam and the radical Islam of our day. To lump them together would
be a tragic mistake. It would only produce error which would lead to attendant
terror.
“I only hope that this is a wake up
call to our government and we must now rise up so that together we can deploy
all our resources to stop the terrorists dead in their tracks,” he said.
Bakare further stated that he was
taken by God in a vision to the dreaded Sambisa Forest in Borno State.
The Sambisa Forest has become
notorious in recent past as it is said to be the location where the over 200
abducted Chibok girls are being held by members of the Boko Haram sect.
The clergyman noted that the Sambisa
he saw was a tourist destination without any sign of violence or the Boko Haram
and prayed that the vision would become reality.
He said, “The Lord took me in the
spirit, I lie not in the Holy Ghost, He took me to Sambisa Forest. When I got
there, I didn’t see violence, I didn’t see any ambushment, I didn’t see any
insurgent group.
“I saw a beautiful landscape and I
saw buildings and it became a historical choice centre. I have seen that day
and it will come to pass in this nation in the name of Jesus. Village life will
return to this nation.”
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