The General Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly, Mr Tunde
Bakare, has said God told him not to end his political career as he had earlier
contemplated.
Specifically, Bakare, who contested as the
vice-presidential candidate on the platform of defunct Congress for
Progressive Change in the 2011 presidential election, said God told him to run
for the Presidency.
The Lagos-based cleric spoke in the early hours of Monday
during the watch night service at Latter Rain Assembly in the Ogba
area of Lagos.
Giving a rundown of the 12 major things he said God revealed
to him would happen in 2018, Bakare explained that God had not told him when
the “appointed time” to run for the presidency would be.
“This twelfth one is a difficult one for me. It may draw
excitement or condemnation. I have tried my best to keep it (to myself) but the
Holy Spirit will not allow me to do so.
“In my study around 4am on Sunday morning, God told me ‘you
cannot bring your political career to a close; there is still more to do. Run
for the Presidency. I will do it at the appointed time,” the pastor added.
Bakare declared that he was unfazed by the daunting task
that his aspiration might pose, expressing confidence that once the Lord had
spoken, it was left for God to perform it.
“Joseph (in the Bible) did not contest an election; yet, he
became the prime minister of Egypt. Why must I worry myself about where to get
the resources for the task? Your own duty in this assignment is to pray along
with me. When it is the appointed time, He (God) will do it. When He tells me
the time, you will hear about it,” he stated.
Bakare added that most of the “political juggernauts” in the
country would fall “at the feet of women in 2018.”
Though he did not mention names, the cleric said some of
those seen at the moment as among the most powerful in Nigeria’s political
space, would be “replaced.”
“In 1998, I told you that I saw your President dying between
two women. Did it happen? I’m telling you again: some of these political
juggernauts will fall at the feet of women and you will see it happen,” he
said.
The pastor declared that 2018 would be a year when women
would break barriers in most fields of human endeavours both in Nigeria and
globally.
He explained that women would be in the forefront of most
policy making decisions while also dictating the pace in the boardroom.
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