Pastor Bakare Rejects N12million Allowance At National Confab

Popular Nigerian pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has declared that he will not partake of the N12m that the Goodluck Jonathan government is paying delegates to the 3-month National Conference in Abuja which commences on Monday.

Pastor Bakare, representing Ogun at the conference, said he made the decision not to collect the money to be paid to delegates in order to dispel any negative speculation. He said Nigerians deserve sincere service:

“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."

 Each of the 492 delegates to the Conference would be paid N4m per month for the three month duration and this has been the subject of controversy and several Nigerians have condemned the amount to be spent.

Announcing to his church members that he had accepted to be a delegate at the conference, Bakare said:
“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.”