{"id":102540,"date":"2023-01-17T02:56:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T01:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102540"},"modified":"2023-01-17T02:56:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T01:56:05","slug":"pastor-bakare-a-political-paperweight-not-deserving-serious-attention-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/pastor-bakare-a-political-paperweight-not-deserving-serious-attention-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Bakare, a political paperweight, not deserving serious attention \u2014 APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1755209729865467538\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Presidential Campaign Council, PCC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC has described a chieftain of the party, Pastor Tunde Bakare, as a political paperweight whose utterances should not be given a serious thought.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nBakare, the Presiding Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (formerly Latter Rain Assembly), was one of those who slugged it out with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at last year\u2019s Special Presidential Convention of the party.<\/p>\n<p>In his state-of-the-nation address on Sunday, the cleric had advised Nigerians to shun those promoting \u2018emilokan\u2019, a term associated with Tinubu and which means \u201cmy turn\u201d in Yoruba.<\/p>\n<p>He added that no good politician seeking the votes of the people would evade public debates and also task his team members with the task of answering questions specifically directed at him.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cBakare got zero votes at the convention\u201d, said Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Director, Special Media Projects\/New Media at the PCC.<\/p>\n<p>Also reacting, the Special Adviser, Media, Communications and Public Affairs at the PCC, Mr Dele Alake said the cleric is a political neophyte.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a man who did a video in his church asking his members to vote for Tinubu, then the next day, he does the opposite. 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