The fiery Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly in Lagos has told former military dicators, Ibrahim Babangida and Olusegun Obasanjo that their schemes to oust Yar'Adua in order to regain power and influence will fail. Preaching a message entitled “The King Is Not Yet Dead,” Pastor Bakare declared: "“Evil genius, that which you are doing, do it quickly. None of you will survive your evil plot."
Latter Rain Assembly leader said there is a feverish plot to exploit Yar’Adua’s health and the faulty electoral system that brought him to power to remove him from office.
Pastor Bakare, however, warned that their plot will fail and those behind it will pay dearly for it if they don’t retrace their steps now.
Pastor Bakare delved into the entire Chapter 1 of 1st Kings in the Bible where Adonijah surreptitiously proclaimed himself king of Israel without the consent of his father, King David, who had earlier promised to hand over the kingship to Solomon, his most favoured son.
He warned Babangida and Obasanjo that those who fail to learn from history become history themselves.
According to the fiery preacher, “the plotting and scheming of evil men against Yar’Adua on account of his health and the weak electoral system that produced him shall fail.”
He further warned: “Evil genius, that which you are doing, do it quickly. None of you will survive your evil plot. You will cut off your own head. The boat of IBB and OBJ will hit the rock.
“There is nothing God cannot fix - both the challenge of the health of the president and the perverse election that brought him to power,” adding that, “there must be second anointing for Solomon,” while alluding to the fact that even if Yar’Adua’s election was annulled by the election tribunal and the president asked to contest afresh, he would win just as King David anointed Solomon twice to confirm him the authentic King of Israel.
The pastor said all the scheming and horse trading by those who want to take Yar’Adua’s job are tantamount to digging their own graves, adding that men mess themselves up, “because of the ghost from their past and greed from their hearts. If you don’t know how to set yourself free from the ghosts of your past, they will haunt your present, since some have a way of finding you out.”
He said God has a way of humbling those who try to exalt themselves or search for what is not, lost, in apparent reference to Yar’Adua’s seat which is not vacant.
According to him, “whenever evil men are scheming and plotting, men of good will initiate a counter move through prayers.”
He called on the congregation to pray fervently for Yar’Adua and the peace of the country, which he described as land of possibilities.
Pastor Bakare capped his sermon with a Yoruba song which the entire church chorused in unison: Atuwa lara O Atuwa lara O; Igbayi O, Yar’Adua, Atuwa lara O.
