{"id":277401,"date":"2020-11-03T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=277401"},"modified":"2020-11-03T16:06:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T15:06:14","slug":"2023-ill-no-longer-fold-my-hands-i-will-take-over-from-buhari-tunde-bakare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=277401","title":{"rendered":"2023: I&#8217;ll no longer fold my hands, I will take over from Buhari &#8211; Tunde Bakare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The founder of Citadel Global Church, Tunde Bakare, has declared his readiness to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari come 2023.<br \/>\nThe cleric during his appearance as a guest on Arise Television show yesterday, insisting that as a citizen of Nigeria he has the right to run for any elective office.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is my fundamental right to run if I chose to. I mean every word I spoke. I cannot fold my hand or say well, let me continue to watch. No,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cI am a citizen of this country, born and bred here by the grace of God and I intend to contribute my quota. It is like a matter of life and death.\u201d<br \/>\nThe pastor said that he is ready to support the right people but also offering himself, hoping that Nigerians will support him, adding \u201cI am not taking those words back. I have something to offer my country.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBut it is all left for my country to say we want you because I cannot impose myself on them. I challenge right-thinking patriots to rise and let us join hands to fix our country. If God designs it that I will be the 16th president in 2023, I\u2019m ready. I\u2019m prepared.<br \/>\nBakare said he has no word to impress anybody, adding that all he can guarantee is quality service.<br \/>\nAccording to him, he has been trained for over 30 years by God to be able to add value to this country.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Citadel Global Church, Tunde Bakare, has declared his readiness to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari come 2023. The cleric during his appearance as a guest on Arise Television show yesterday, insisting that as a citizen of Nigeria he has the right to run for any elective office. \u201cIt is my fundamental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,41,5901],"class_list":["post-277401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-tunde-bakare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}