National Conference: I don’t need the N12m allowance – Bakare

Convener of Save Nigeria Group, SNG, and founder of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has disclosed that he would not collect the N12m to be paid to each delegate who would take part in the National Conference that will be inaugurated by President Goodluck Jonathan today, March 17.
Bakare, who represents Ogun State said his decision to ignore the allowance was to dispel any speculation that his motivation for accepting to take part in the conference was because of the money involved.
The presidency had earlier announced that each of the 492 delegates to the National Conference would be paid N4m per month for the conference, which is expected to last for three months.
Bakare told his church members yesterday that he had accepted to be a delegate to the conference, but wont partake in the weekly allowance.

He said, “A friend of mine called me this (Sunday) morning that he heard on the radio that ‘Pastor Bakare had accepted to go, that his own fee is N12m’. Pastor Bakare will not take a kobo in the National Conference.
“I will not take a penny. It has nothing to do with others; that is by choice. We go with integrity of heart, it is not money. The God of heaven will prosper us.
“What I say here is what I will do there. I do not say others should do it, but I intend to do that so that our heart can remain pure. That does not mean the hearts of others are not pure but I don’t want anybody to think in any slight manner that the motive is this.
“This is the moment we have been waiting for, for this end, I was born. Nigeria will be saved, Nigeria will be changed, and Nigeria will become great.”
Speaking further, the outspoken preacher said before he decided to be one of the delegates, he sought the approval of Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), the man to whom he was his running mate on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 presidential election.
He said, “Before I answered the call, before I said yes, I called General Buhari that ‘I don’t want our stands on this national conference issue to be different. The governor of Ogun State put me on his list, the Elders of South-West put me on their list. What do you say?’
“He said the All Progressives Congress might not be going, but you are free to go because you never can tell how God will help our nation. That does not mean I am in APC. People have been asking, ‘are you in APC,’ ‘are you in PDP?’ I have told you, I am on the side of God. In this season, I don’t know until we fix Nigeria.” he added.
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