Parents Now throw their children over a fence to ensure access to charity food — Pst. Tunde Bakare
…..”Nigeria demands Joseph-type visionaries, not “motor‑park politics.”
Former presidential aspirant and presiding overseer of the Lagos-based Global Community Citadel Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has warned that under President Bola Tinubu, Nigeria risks a popular uprising unless the administration changes course on security and the economy.
Addressing worshippers during his Easter State-of-the-Nation broadcast in Ikeja, the former APC presidential aspirant said the country is being driven toward the brink amid a fresh wave of killings in Plateau, Benue and Enugu.
He argued that Nigeria demands Joseph-type visionaries, not “motor‑park politics.”
Bakare said, “Fellow citizens, at the centre of this political banditry, is the motor park brand of politics nurtured by the old brigade politicians and, in recent times, by President Bola Tinubu.
“Those responsible for steering the course of our nation lack the humility and character this moment demands…What we have seen since the beginning of the year is a descent into tyranny and the brazen abuse of power.”
Bakare, who ran against Tinubu for the APC ticket in 2022, said the economic pain unleashed by fuel‑subsidy removal, naira devaluation and runaway inflation is pushing citizens to the brink.
Despite headline inflation easing to 23.18 per cent in February after hitting a 28-year peak in 2024, food prices remained relatively high. Once N460/$ before the unification of the exchange rate, the naira now hovers near N1,500. More so, forex scarcity and eroded margins have led to the recent exit of corporates from Diageo to Unilever from the Nigerian market.
In the latter months of 2024, food‑price spikes triggered fatal stampedes as crowds flooded charity events to claim food items such as rice, while the World Bank estimates that more than one million Nigerians fell into “severe food insecurity” in the past 12 month.
