In his annual State of the Nation Broadcast given on Easter Sunday, the cleric also disclosed that he had handed the president a blueprint for national reconciliation since the commencement of his first term, in 2015.
The president has obviously not found a use for the said blueprint.
The 2021 edition was with the theme: “The Conspicuous Handwriting on the Wall.”
He said on anti-corruption, President Muhammadu Buhari must be guided by the understanding that the anti-corruption war will truly be won, not merely by the force of prosecution, but, more fundamentally, by a national moral compass and the deliberate and strategic integration of the Nigerian people into true nationhood.
If citizens have a definite stake in their nation, not only will they not steal from the national purse, they will also do everything legal and let imitate to, rid the nation of those elements who seek to sabotage the common good through corruption.
“We need to bring the Nigerian people together into one unifying national agenda. PMB may institute, by an executive order, a vehicle in the form of a Presidential Commission for National Reconciliation, Reintegration and Restructuring or Rebirth, however so named, the details of which I have presented to him, since the commencement of his first term in office,” he said.
Alluding to the dangers of overconfidence which political historians in America have come to dub the second-term curse, that usually messes up re-elected presidents, Bakare noted that the insecurity in the land might bring the curse on the Buhari administration.
Though racing against time, he believed the administration could still finish well and strong if it would harken to the restructuring cries.
The cleric mapped out his understanding of restructuring thus: “Restructuring does not mean the dismemberment of the Nigerian State. It is not an attack on Nigerian unity. It does not mean disadvantaging any section of the country. Restructuring means empowering the North West, the North Central, the North East, the South West), the South South and the South East so that every part of our country will be safe and prosperous. Show me one person who does not want this for our country, and I will show you an enemy of Nigeria.