CENTUS NWEZE REPORTING
Prominent cleric and politician in Nigeria, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has discribed as unhelpful the self entitlement mentality fueling political candidacy of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, while also coming down hard on similar manifestations in other parties.
Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar of People Democratic Party, PDP, Peter Obi of Labour Party, LP, and Rabiu Kwankwaso, New Nigerian People’s Party, NNPP, are Frontline candidates ahead the presidential election next year.
But the cleric in a video broadcast recently released said some of the candidates have demonstrated unhelpful sense of entitlement in seeking their mandates.
Singling out the mantra, ’emilokan’, translated from Yoruba, a South West Nigerian language, to mean ‘it’s my turn’, which was first uttered by Tinubu and has been the common refrain in his campaign, Bakare said that such thinking should not be entertained.
“The politics of ‘Emilokan’ is bad politics, does not align with present circumstances,” he said.
He also condemned the occurance of serial candidacy in Nigeria’s politics.
this tendency appear to capture the political histories of men like Atiku who has been seeking to rule the country since 1992 and Kwankwaso who has also nursed the ambition since 2015.
The cleric also traced such tendencies to sinister outcomes elimination of political rivals.
“Who killed Funsho Williams, Chintex and so on,” Bakare queried.