President Jonathan should just quit power - Pastor Bakare

The Serving Overseer of

the Latter Rain Assembly

and Convener of the

Save Nigeria Group,

Pastor Tunde Bakare

today asked President

Goodluck Jonathan to quit power honourably

or be disgraced out of Aso Rock.

He made the pronouncement in a speech he read

in his packed church in Lagos, southwest Nigeria.

He titled the speech: How To Change Government

Peacefully And Make Society Better.

He said he was calling on Jonathan to resign

because he is too ill-equipped to rule the country

and that the problems of the country have

overwhelmed him.

“In spite of the president’s promises to deal with

insecurity head-on, this government appears

helpless because it cannot see the linkage

between corruption and violence,” he said.

Pastor Bakare, who quoted the scriptures

copiously, especially books and verses that relate

to prophetic revolutions and how God enthroned

kings and disgraced out of power those that failed

to keep His precepts and rule properly, decried

the corruption in the country and warned that the

country cannot continue to slide down the

precipice.

He said: “the nation has been thrown to the dogs

of pervasive corruption and disruptive, perennial

insecurity”.

In the speech, which had four major headings:

Who Really Rules in the Affairs of Men; The

Purpose of Government in a Nation; How to

Change Government in a Peaceful Manner; and

The Way Forward, he also listed four factors that

could lead to change in the leadearship of the

country in the foreseeable future.

The pastor listed the Unquestionable God Factor,

Resignation, Impeachment and the People’s

Revolt as some of the options open to Jonathan.

Out of these options, he said the immediate one

is resignation which, according to him, “is not a

sign of weakness– it is a sign of patriotic

truthfulness. It is giving opportunity to those who

can do a better job in the interest of a nation to

carry on with nation-building where the exiting

leader stops.”

Bakare added that there will be change of

leadership in the country before 2015, saying

there will be a free and fair election before that

year.