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2023: Pastor Bakare Picks APC N100m Presidential Forms, To Declare, May 9

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The General Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Thursday has picked his nomination and expression of interest forms for the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Bakare obtained the forms at the All Progressives Congress headquarters in Abuja on Thursday.

The pastor would officially declare his presidential ambition on Monday, May 9, 2022, at the Shehu Musa Yarā€™Adua Centre, Central Business District in Abuja, according to a statement,

The statement was obtained by Eaglesforesight correspondent on Thursday.

Tunde Bakare was a former Vice-Presidential candidate to Muhammadu Buhari during the 2011 elections under the Congress for Progressive Change and he is also the Convener of the Save Nigeria Group.

The statement read, ā€œHaving been privileged to serve Nigeria in various nation-building capacities, I intend to take a step further in the service of our beloved country and of you, her worthy citizen, by running for the Office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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ā€œIt is with utmost humility, therefore, that I write to formally inform you ā€“ distinguished citizens of our nation, elder statesmen and stateswomen, political leaders, traditional leaders, overseers of religious establishments, members of civil society, policymakers, students, public servants from the national and sub-national levels of government, stakeholders from the private sector, the intelligentsia, opinion moulders, thought leaders from various institutions of knowledge, and every Nigerian, home and abroad ā€“ of my intention to contest.

ā€œPropelled by the desire to rebuild Nigeria into a nation that works for every Nigerian, I have, in the past, engaged in the political process as running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 presidential elections under the Congress for Progressive Change, and subsequently, as the founding member of the All Progressives Congress who moved the motion for the merger that produced the APC.

ā€œI have also served as a leader in the civic space as the Convener of Save Nigeria Group, a coalition of civil society groups that facilitated the rightful recognition of President Goodluck Ebe le Jonathan, first as Acting President, and then as substantive president, through a grassroots people movement and high-level advocacy.

ā€œIn 2014, it was my privilege to be selected as a South-West Delegate to the National Conference, where I proposed ā€œThe Nigerian Charter for National Reconciliation and Integrationā€ that was unanimously adopted and incorporated into the final report.

ā€œFurthermore, I have been actively involved in awakening collective citizen ownership through the pulpit as the founding Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as The Latter Rain Assembly.

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ā€œI have, in addition, contributed to engendering social, political and economic shifts in Nigeria through propositional platforms, including through such initiatives as the New Nigeria Dialogues, the inaugural event of a think-tank I founded in 2009. I have also provided pro bono advisory services to government institutions through key policy inputs, while fostering coalition-building across divides, in addition to building thriving businesses in diverse sectors.

ā€œI have remained committed to harnessing my local and international networks, platforms and resources towards

the emergence of the New Nigeria. As I offer myself to serve you and to work with you towards the

peace, progress and prosperity of Nigeria, as well as the realisation of the enormous possibilities of a great nation in this decade, it would be a great privilege to welcome you as my special guest on the occasion of the formal declaration of intent.ā€

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