By John Ogunsemore

The Founder of Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, said he is being pressured to join the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Bakare, a former presidential aspirant, said the pressure is being mounted by the party’s hierarchy, including a former governor and minister from the South-West.

“There has been a lot of pressure on me from who is who to join ADC. They come to my home. Even while I was abroad, the hierarchy of that party kept calling, saying they needed my voice,” Bakare said at the maiden edition of the Citadel School of Governance Dialogue Series in Lagos on Saturday.

He further disclosed that a political associate who previously held key offices under the APC also advised him to align with ADC.

However, the cleric disclosed that being a foundational chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), he has no plans to join the ADC.

“I am not going to take part in ADC. The last time I knew about ADC was about a plane that crashed. I wish them well, because we need a robust opposition. But you don’t birth a child called APC and then try to kill it yourself. We are not going to have another Awolowo–Akintola crisis in the South-West,” Bakare said.

The cleric hinged Tinubu’s emergence as president on divine providence, saying he could only be removed in similar fashion.

“If God wants to remove ‘emilokan,’ He knows how to do it. You can’t get the kind of thing Tinubu has brought without God’s support,” he said.