Bakare Reacts To Attempt On Buhari's Life

Pastor Tunde Bakare, the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, has said the country would have witnessed unprecedented destruction and loss of lives if the former Head of State, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari, (retd.) had died in Wednesday attack in Kaduna State.

According to Punch, the clergyman, while preaching in his church in Lagos on Sunday, said Nigerians should be grateful that the attempt on the life of the All Progressive Congress (APC) chieftain was unsuccessful, as millions of Buhari’s supporters in the North might have taken the law into their own hands.

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According to him, the crisis would have spread to the South, where more reprisals would have taken place.

“But for what could only have been an act of God, this past week might have marked the beginning of the end for our nation. For if the attack targeted at Buhari and his entourage on Wednesday had succeeded, the hatchers of the Nigerian disintegration agenda would have been smiling home to the bank by now.

“The enormous goodwill and massive following enjoyed by the General among the tens of millions of disadvantaged northern youths for whom he has become a messianic symbol, would have transmogrified into the unguided and uncontrollable fury of a vengeful army, whose target would not be without political and ethnic colouration.

“Invariably, this would have sparked up a corresponding reaction of violence from an equally militant antagonistic young population from across the Niger. One needs not be a political analyst to see that such a scenario might have culminated in the demise of our nation,” he said.

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Pastor Tunde Bakare was Buhari’s running mate under the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC in the 2011 Presidential elections.

It would be recalled that there was s suicide bomb attempt on the life of Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari, (retd.) on Wednesday July 23 in Kaduna State.

Source: Legit.ng