The Serving Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, says It’s time to renegotiate our union, he has faulted the manner the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government is handling the killings by Fulani herdsmen, saying the government is “laying a foundation for cyclonic eruption of violence” in the country.
Bakare, who was Buhari’s running mate during the 2011 presidential election, accused the President of double standard, pointing out that while the Federal Government led by Buhari was quick to deploy military might against the agitating Indigenous People of Biafra, same government developed a cold feet to the menace by herdsmen that were taking lives.
He said in a sane country, such a government would have since been ousted.
Bakare said this on Sunday while addressing journalists in his church, in the Ogba area of Lagos, shortly after he spoke on the state of the nation, in a broadcast he tagged, “It is time to renegotiate our union.”
Asked by journalists for his reaction to how the Federal Government is handling the killings by herdsmen, the cleric said, “I felt the government maintained what I call deliberate, sinful silence and it’s unfortunate that that can happen in this country.
“Look at what happened to IPOB; they mobilised massively both military and Air Force, to go because of a man who is not killing anybody but just saying there would be no election. And this is where people, literally, are being murdered and nothing was done. That’s not justice and you are laying foundation of cyclonic eruption of violence because once retaliation or reprisal begins, we can’t handle it. An eye for an eye will render all of us blind. What happened to those 70 people is a sad tale. In fact, in a decent society, such a government will be shown the way out.”