Convener,
Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, says the State Security
Service accused him of partisanship when he was invited by the service
last Monday.
Bakare was invited by the SSS over his
message penultimate Sunday, entitled, ‘How to Change Government
Peacefully and Make Society Better’.
The Serving Overseer of Latter Rain
Assembly said at a press conference in Lagos on Sunday the Director of
SSS told him that he had become partisan.
Bakare said, “The state Director of SSS
asked me to tone down my message, because in his words, I had become
partisan. I countered his argument by saying that my message has not
changed since the days of the military.
“A corrupt, perverse, wasteful,
directionless and clueless government is offensive to me and should be
offensive to every intelligent patriot in this nation. I asked him if he
considered my activities and that of SNG in 2010 controversial and
partisan when we marched the streets of Abuja and Lagos to protest the
impunity being meted out to then Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan in the
dying days of President Musa Yar’Adua.
“He did not answer me. Now is the time
to answer him and the likes of him who think partisanship is a spiritual
sin or crime that must not be committed by clergymen.”
He said a partisan person meant someone
who actively supports a party, cause or principle, stressing that people
who do not stand for something, would fall for anything.
Bakare added, “Partisanship also means
one-sided or biased. The message I preach are only biased in favour of
righteousness, justice and truth.
“To this, I plead guilty because there
is nothing anyone can do against the truth, but for the truth. If I’m
being asked to tone down my message because of perceived partisanship,
those asking me to do so have only succeeded in precipitating a tone
up.”
The lawyer, who was the
vice-presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in
the 2011 presidential election, said he was not against the person of
President Goodluck Jonathan but against bad governance and corruption.
Source: Punch
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