Tunde Bakare, a prominent Lagos pastor and the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, was quoted to have revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari always wanted a Vice President that could hold the nation together in case he died.
According to TheCable , Bakare said that was why Buhari selected him as running mate in 2011.
It would be recalled, the duo contested the election under the platform of the then Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), but lost to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
However, while speaking to his congregants in Ogba, Lagos, last month, Bakare said Buhari rejected former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s choice of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance.
He was quoted to have said: “After I was called and I went to Abuja, and I sat with Mr President or General Buhari then, I said why me? ‘I’m not a politician’, ‘I do not belong to any political party’, ‘I am not carrying card of any party, why me’?” he asked.
“He gave me all the reasons, they are written in the book; Strategic Intervention in Governance. He gave three reasons, but the one that made everyone around me that day to dove their hats was when he said: I am not as young as you think, and even Yar’Adua that is younger is dead.
“In case I die, I know you can hold the nation together. That was when Jim (he didn’t give his surname) removed his cap and said e gbon , you must agree.”
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