Kayode Fasua
A cleric, Prophet Lai Bamidele, has on the occasion of this administration’s first year anniversary, urged President Muhammadu Buhari
to be a listening President, so as to meet his goals for the four-year mandate given to him by Nigerians.
Bamidele, who is General Overseer of Glorious End-Time Evangelical Church in Abule-Egba, Lagos, said though the President’s piety and integrity are not in doubt, but that he still came across as a man who hardly listened to wise counsel.
The cleric hinged his criticism on the fallout of the election of principal officers into the National Assembly, which he said was fraught with betrayal against the decision of his party, the All Progressives Congress.
“It was not right then for the President to have quickly reacted that ‘we will work with the newly elected leaders of the National Assembly’, as this has sown a seed of discord in the party that brought him to power.
“For sure, the emergence of Saraki was on a wrong footing and any house built on mere sand will surely collapse,” he stressed.
Prophet Bamidele added that God had since 2013 revealed to him that then President Goodluck Jonathan would not emerge as President for another term and that since Buhari was the only credible alternative, there was no questioning that the latter would become the next President.
His words: “God told me, as he used to tell me after returning from the mountain on the January of every year, that Jonathan would not win the 2015 election. That was in 2013, and it was published in the newspapers. But the second day after its publication, I can recollect vividly that Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State replied me in one of the newspapers that I am a fake prophet.
“Not long after, serious crisis broke out between Amaechi and Jonathan, and the same Amaechi started working against Jonathan.”
The cleric advised the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, to vacate the office in his own interest as what he foresaw for him as Senate President, “is not palatable.”
In the same vein, he condemned members of the Senate who had been escorting “an accused Senate President to answer charges at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, for charges that do not concern them,” as disgraceful in their conduct.
Prophet Bamidele also noted that Buhari is not yet Nigeria’s messiah, “but he is the one who will put up the structures that will help this country.”