BY LINUS CHIBUIKE
SERVING Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Thursday, said he was quoted out of context in reports that quoted him as saying that President Muhammadu Buhari had disappointed Nigerians.
He said the newspapers chose the angle they liked and misrepresented the facts in the process, in order to sell their papers.
Bakare, who made the clarification, in an Arise TV interview, said he chose his words carefully and only stated the facts.
Newspapers and blogs had feasted on the Pastor’s Tuesday Instagram interview with the Publisher of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu.
He was quoted to have said that there was a general feeling of disappointment among Nigerians with the Buhari administration.
Bakare, who was Buhari’s running mate, under the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 election, had, in the Ovation interview, said the drum of disintegration was louder in Nigeria than before, but was optimistic that the country would survive and become “the Nigeria of our dreams”.
But he said on Thursday that “those headlines were creations of the newspapers themselves. Those were not the exact words I used.”
He pointed out that he had specifically said that the coming of President Buhari into power in 2015 was taken as a breath of fresh air to many Nigerians.
He stressed, “I did not use the words: Buhari has disappointed Nigerians. I will not ask the papers not to sell their papers using any headline. Sometimes they make their own deduction from what was spoken.
“I chose to be moderate in all that I say. Except I have concrete facts, I do not just talk. But are Nigerians disappointed? It is everywhere. You see it in the news. When expectations are not met, people will express their frustrations. It is natural and normal.”
That does not however mean the current administration has not done anything good, Bakare noted.
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