Pastor Tunde Bakare Wants Elections Postponed By Six Months

Convener of the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Pastor
Tunde Bakare has called for the postponement of the
2015 general elections by six months.
Bakare, who spoke, yesterday at his church, the Latter
Rain Assembly, Lagos, in his State of the Nation’s
address with the theme, The Gathering Storm and
Avoidable Shipwreck: How to Avoid Catastrophic
Euroclydon, the former vice presidential candidate of
the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC),
warned of impending dangers for the country, if the
warning signals were ignored.
“I must state that the proposal for suspension of
elections is not with a view to giving the president an
avenue for undue tenure elongation but for the purpose
of building a coalition that will bring lasting solutions to
our problems.
“I have clearly painted a picture of where we are, a
disaster is ahead of us. If the northerner emerges as
winner, whether he has won that election fair and
square or not, people will allege rigging. If Jonathan
wins the election, fair and square, they will allege that
he used his power of incumbency to rig the election,”
Bakare noted.
He said, however, that the only way to avert the storm
was to urgently address some fundamental flaws in the
polity.