The Presiding Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, yesterday urged Nigerian leaders to immortalise former President Muhammadu Buhari by giving the nation good governance.
Bakare, an associate of the late Awujale of Ijebu land, Oba Sikiru Adetona, and the late President Buhari, said this while addressing reporters while paying a tribute to the late leaders.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the conference was held at the CGCC in Oregun, Lagos.
Former President and Oba Adetona died on July 13.
Bakare noted that the exit of both leaders, who were his good friends and nationalists, should be a rallying point for harnessing their patriotic legacies to move the nation forward.
“I found myself pondering the fact that both leaders died the same day,” he said.
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Bakare, a former presidential running mate to Buhari, reminisced on the lives and legacies of the deceased.
He said the three of them were friends and brought together by providence for national cohesion.
According to him, Buhari’s dream for a better Nigeria was peerless and resonated in his integrity and forthrightness to the nation’s development while in office.
“The best Nigeria could do for the late former President is to advance his dream of a functional Nigeria, a Nigeria where there will no longer be oppression of any kind, advancement of the rule of law, and judicious deployment of the nation’s resources for the common good,” he said.
Bakare urged Nigerian leaders to build on Buhari’s legacy for an equitable and just nation.