The Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and convener of the Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has slammed Nigeria’s former Army Generals, saying they were holding the nation to ransom.
Pastor Bakare, who was speaking in his church in Lagos, tongue-lashed former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, former military dicator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, and Gen. Theophilus Danjuma, saying they and other retired generals were responsible for Nigeria's mess.
According to Bakare, “the Generals are on the prowl again. They are gathering like vultures. The same people who got us into this mess are the ones we have called to heal us.”
He said what kind of counsel would someone like Danjuma, who did not know what to do with the N500 million he got from the sale of oil bloc, give to Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, who appointed him Chairman, Presidential Advisory Council, PAC.
Bakare debunked reports in a section of the media that the Save Nigeria Group was now torn apart over funds received from Malam Nuhu Ribadu, Malam El-Rufai and others.
He challenged the purveyors of the report to produce evidence that the group had got money from these people.
He said the false report was the handiwork of detractors who were not comfortable with the strides SNG was making to bring about a new Nigeria.
Bakare said SNG had paid for its secretariat since January and that it was being renovated and would be opened in April, contrary to the report that it had no secretariat.
He added that the group was being funded by contributions from key members and that at the appropriate time, credible and ordinary Nigerians would be asked to contribute their widow’s mite and that every kobo would be properly accounted for.
