Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC) formerly Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has joined the list of aspirants vying for the presidency in 2023.
Bakare declared this at a virtual meeting on Saturday.
“I have a vision of a New Nigeria that was birthed in me from childhood and an honest aspiration to serve as the 16th president of my beloved nation, Nigeria,” he said.
The declaration is coming about six months after President Muhammadu Buhari received Bakare at the villa where his former running mate confided in him on his next political move.
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Bakare was Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 presidential elections under the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
In 2019 after casting his ballot, he had expressed his willingness to contest for the presidency after expiration of Buhari’s second term in 2023.
Declaring his intention, Bakare noted Nigeria needs a leader “who can reconcile grievous historical and current differences.”
He added: “Reintegration of the various ethnic and religious constituent parts into true nationhood, and rebuild the broken walls of federalism while maximising Nigeria’s diverse geo-economic potential.”