According to Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, the results of the 2023 elections have demonstrated that Nigerians are tired of the All Progressives Congress, or APC, which is currently in power.
During a State of the Nation Broadcast on Sunday at the church in Ikeja, Lagos, with the theme "Vice, Virtue & Time: Three Things That Never Stand Still," Bakare made this statement.
He said, “At this juncture, I must also sound a warning to the APC. I was there when the APC was formed and the extent of my involvement is well documented.
“As a stakeholder and more importantly as a nation builder, I’m more obligated to state without equivocation that this is not the APC we envisaged. The results of the last elections were clear indications that Nigerians are fed up with what the APC had become.”
According to Bakare, the fact that the APC received fewer votes in the 2023 presidential election than it did in the 2015 and 2019 elections shows that the party's support base has shrunk.
“If it were not for the divisions within the Peoples Democratic Party and the emergence of the Obidient movement of the Labour Party that split the traditional support base of the PDP;
“…the APC would have convincingly lost the 2023 elections. Even now, the party’s victory as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission is being challenged in court,” he said.
The APC, in Bakare's opinion, has now evolved into a venue for politicians "with no ideology" who switched between parties in an effort to gain control at any costs.
He said, “The APC stood for progressivism characterised by substantial positive investment in social sectors such as education and healthcare and it achieved inclusiveness and social mobility.”
The preacher claimed that this has changed over time as a result of the "anti-people policies" of the government, which he claimed are to blame for the current economic misery that many Nigerians are experiencing.
