The Presiding Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church (formerly Latter Rain Assembly), Pastor Tunde Bakare has thrown a shade at the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
In a state of the
nation address on Sunday, Bakare said good politicians do not ask others to
answer questions directed at them.
Bakare in his address, warned against
politics of entitlement, describing it as bad politics.
While also making reference to the
Yoruba word, ‘Emi lokan”, which means it
is my turn, the clergy man said politicians with a sense of entitlement evade
political debate and fail to address Nigerians they seek to serve.
Pastor Bakare then Nigerians to reject
vote buyers in the 2023 election and called for entrenchment of
good politics which focuses on issues of development.
“This ’emi lo kan’ politics that
insists on one’s turn, even if circumstances do not align, is bad. Politics of
entitlement also manifests as perennial candidacy, not with the intent to
serve, but to gratify long personal ambitions. It could also manifest as
insistence on a given political office as a reward for what one considers a
lifetime of sacrifice to the nation. Politicians with a sense of entitlement
evade political debates and do not consider it imperative to communicate with
the electorate.”
“Entitlement politics will breed an imperial presidency that is distant from
the people and has no sense of responsibility or accountability to the people.
Such imperial governance will slide towards dictatorship and will be intolerant
of dissent.
“Entitlement politicians set low performance benchmarks for themselves when
they secure power and are content with projecting molehills as mountains of
achievement. Good Politics, Good Governance, Fellow Nigerians, having completed
our analysis of bad politics and the bad governance it outputs, let us now take
a look at good politics and its output of good governance. Good politics is
pragmatic politics in the interest of the people.
“Politicians who practice good politics talk to the people they intend to
govern; by communicating, they allay fears, restore hope, and assure the
citizenr. It is engaging and interactive p : The practitioners of good politics
are open to interrogation and they do not avoid debates or evade difficult
questions. It is inclusive : good politics gives a sense of belonging to
historically excluded or vulnerable groups, including women, young people, the
elderly, and persons living with disabilities,” he said.
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