Former presidential aspirant, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has inaugurated a redemptive movement, Nigeria for Nigerians, otherwise known as N4N Movement. Inaugurating the movement, the Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church vowed that the movement would help trigger change of government in 2023.
According to him, the launch was an indication that “it is time for Nigerians to take back Nigeria.” Bakare spoke yesterday during his state of the nation address entitled, ‘The black box of Nigeria’s politics’ in Oregun, Lagos. In the address which he described as his last, Bakare said the state of the nation broadcast might be the last he would deliver in the church auditorium.
According to him, the N4N Movement was inaugurated because “it is time for Nigerians to take back their nation;” adding, “There will be a change of government in 2023.” Bakare thus made good the promise he made in March 2018 when he announced a plan to form a political movement to champion the restructuring of Nigeria.
On the new movement he declared, he said it would be christened the New Nigeria Progressive Movement “which will fight to entrench true federalism in the country.” “Even among those touting restructuring in their political agenda today, there is no visible concerted effort in the direction of long-term commitment to fundamental re-conceptualisation and renegotiation of the Nigeria state. “Thus, once the furore of election turns, whims and movement predictably loses momentum, Nigerians once again will be faced with the daily realities of a nation that is restructured to fail.”
Fellow Nigerians, he said, “I’m here to announce to you that the time has come for the true progressives to arise, say enough is enough to political hypnosis. “It is time to take our country back,” he said yesterday in a worship service way back then, adding, “We are stepping in to shape the national conversation beyond elections and begin to lay the groundwork for the restructuring of this nation.
Bakare added, “We will be going to every nook and cranny with our agenda and message. We have only three points on our agenda — restructuring, restructuring, and restructuring.
“Therefore, our Distinct Nationhood Agenda, DNA, is simple, it is RUN — Restructuring for United Nigeria – this is what I’m set to advance.
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The rather controversial cleric stated, “I’m running and leading a movement called the New Nigeria Progressives Movement.
“We shall join forces with foreign countries, champion reintegration of diverse ethnic groups into true identity until every Nigeria is proud to say ‘I’m a Nigerian’ and also spearhead the orientation of every Nigerian until a minimum of 50 million Nigerians can say ‘no’ to hypnotic democracy.”
