The Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday verbally expressed Nigerians should be grateful that the endeavor on the life of a former Head of State, Maj. Gen Muahammadu Buhari, (retd.), was unsuccessful, as it would have led to a crisis of unprecedented ravagement and loss of lives.
Bakare, who was Buhari’s running mate on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change during the 2011 Presidential elections, verbalized Buhari had millions of adherents in the North who might have taken the law into their own hands.
He verbalized the crisis would have spread to the South, where more reprisals would occur.
Bakare verbally expressed this while preaching in his church in Lagos on Sunday.
He verbalized, “But for what could only have been an act of God, this past week might have marked the commencement of the cessation for our nation. For if the assailment targeted at Buhari and his entourage on Wednesday had prospered, the hatchers of the Nigerian disintegration agenda would have been smiling home to the bank by now.
“The cyclopean goodwill and massive following relished 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 equipollently militant antagonistic adolescent population from across the Niger. One needs not be a political analyst to optically discern that such a scenario might have culminated in the demise of our nation.”
Bakare verbally expressed according to available statistics, between April 2010 and June 2014, terrorism had been the cause of about 6,000 deaths in the country while this year alone, a conservative figure of over 2,500 were reported to have been killed by the activities of Boko Haram.
He admonished that it would be naïve for anyone to cerebrate that terrorism was pristinely a northern quandary since 486 terror suspects had been apprehended in Abia State while Boko Haram had claimed responsibility for the assailments in Apapa, Lagos after an endeavor by the regime to dub them mere “explosions.”
Bakare verbalized the reasons terrorism thrived in Nigeria were because of the failure of perspicacity which resorted to tracking the opposition rather than malefactors and the enemies of the state.
He gave other reasons as governmental incompetence, a debilitating armed forces, internal and international conspiracy; and opportunism.
He integrated that the assailment should have made it clear to all that Buhari was not a Boko Haram sympathiser.
Bakare noted that the military at present cannot adequately combat terrorism, noting that soldiers confront members of the Boko Haram with “inferior weapons.”
He criticised President Goodluck Jonathan for seeking $1bn peregrine loan to fight terrorism, verbally expressing “the last time the military was equipped was in the 1980s and there have been budgetary allocations every year.
“The senate verbalize they optate to reconvene to consider the request and nobody is asking what transpired to the amount budgeted for security this year.”
The cleric noted that the reign of terror should not be ascribed to religion but “sheer psychosis.”
He admonished that traditional Islam and radical Islam must not be grouped together, verbally expressing that radical Islam, alongside zoning deprivation, oppression and iniquity, were the cause of terrorism.
“To win this war, we must embark forthwith on precise diagnosis. There is a fundamental distinguishment between traditional Islam and the radical Islam of our day. To lump them together would be a tragic mistake. It would only engender error, which would lead to attendant terror.
“I only hope that this is a wakeup call to our regime and we must now elevate up so that together we can deploy all our resources to stop the terrorists dead in their tracks,” he verbalized.
