How Minister Of Education Oby Ezekwesili Rejected Being Buhari's Running Mate – Tunde Bakare Reveals

Pastor Bakare, who changed into telling the story of how he met and became Buhari’s jogging mate in 2011, stated he listened to the advice of Pastor Enoch Adeboye. 

Tunde Bakare, the senior pastor of the Citadel Global Community Church, has recalled how a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili grew to become down the request to be President Muhammadu Buhari’s jogging mate in 2011, Daily Post reviews.

Pastor Bakare, who was telling the tale of ways he met and became Buhari’s going for walks mate in 2011, stated he listened to the recommendation of Pastor Enoch Adeboye before accepting to run with Buhari.

Bakare said that President Buhari had known as him, requesting that he (Bakare) got him a strolling mate from the South because Nigeria’s shape makes it hard for one to win the presidential election with out a handshake among the north and the south..

 
The cleric said the current vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Oby Ezekwesili, Jimi Agbaje, modern Minister of Trade and Industry, Niyi Adebayo, have been amongst the ones he contacted to run with Buhari then.

He said that at the same time as Agbeje turned into dropped alongside the road, Ezekwesili, who Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, helped him (Bakare) touch, refused to run with Buhari.

“But Pastor Adeboye told me he (Buhari) might want a strong Christian to be his running mate. I stated to him that Oby is powerful too; he said no, that she have to not depart actuality for uncertainty due to the fact she became operating at the World Bank then,” Pastor Bakare stated as quoted by way of the Sun.

He stated that Buhari insisted that he desired the best grassroots mobiliser within the south-west as strolling mate and “On January 15, 2011, at 12 midday, my phone rang, it was Buhari. He stated, Pastor, I had prayed the manner I recognise a way to pray, and I want you to wish additionally, I need you to be my jogging mate.

“I stated to him…that I will never seek an non-compulsory office or be part of a political party. He said I must pray approximately it and make contact with him returned in seven hours, I didn’t name him.

 
“I known as Pastor Adeboye and knowledgeable him, he stated that was it and that he already said Buhari needs a robust Christian and that I am the person and I have to cross there.

“I consulted across the board and I signed on at the remaining day to become his running mate. Of course, we didn’t win the election.”