The Vice-Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the last presidential election; Tunde Bakare, has declared that the party has evidence to prove that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) rigged the April 16 election.
Mr Bakare, said this in his Easter sermon at the Latter Rain Assembly, Ikeja, Lagos, where he is the senior pastor. He said the CPC has resolved to go the court to challenge the result that declared President GoodlucK Jonathan of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner, "not because we are bad losers but we are going to prove to the world that the election was fraudulent."
Reacting to NEXT's publication on Sunday which cited his failure to sign a letter presented to him by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to be the reason that collapsed the alliance talk between CPC and ACN, the Pastor who read out the paper to his congregation expressed his delight that the letter is out saying "everything is all out now, it is wonderful for Nigerians to see what truly happened" as he explained that he did not sign the letter because, doing such will amount to perjury.
Incriminating letter
According to Mr Bakare, "the letter that was brought to me was on a blank sheet of paper and not on a paper with CPC letter as published" but he confirmed that the content of the letter was the same. He further explained that the letter was dated 7th of June and addressed to the President of Nigeria with the content claiming that he was the Vice-President.
He then explained to his congregation during the sermon that was aired on a national TV station that "I refused to sign such a letter because of two reasons. One, it is impersonation. I am not the Vice-President and two, doing such is perjury." "I then wrote a letter in return stating that I will not sign the letter because I was not Vice-President at that time and I will not sign what will implicate me tomorrow."
Mr Bakare who has previously been quoted as saying, "to sign the letter is not only illegal but prostitution and whoredom" described the ploy by ACN as "the pervasion of standard and evasion of principles." He likened himself to Esau in the bible saying "they want me to give away my birthright like it doesn't matter to me." "Those who are guilty of perjury in the past want company" he chided.
He further noted that he was willing to sacrifice for the alliance to work but such a request must only come from the leader of his party. He described ACN's proposal as a ‘compromise' which he defined as "an agreement between two people to do what they both know is wrong as against the sacrifice that was needed at the point in time."
"It wasn't the letter that broke the alliance, time will tell and one of these days people will know who their real leaders are." He warned that "it is not over yet, it is just the beginning of a new process."
On the inferno that razed his residence on Friday, the clergy was full of praises for God as he sang a worship song in Yoruba language and he again compared himself to the biblical Job and Jonah stating such tribulations are endorsed by God, who will take him to where he wants to be. He said "the tyranny of the majority might be on but the majority that is wrong will become the minority and the minority that is right will become the majority, it is only a matter of time" he warned.
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