*Urges Nigerians to be patient
The General Overseer of Latter Rain Assembly, Mr. Tunde Bakare said Friday that it was too early to rate President Muhammadu Buhari, and appealed to Nigerians to be patient with the present administration.
Speaking to State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting with the President, Bakare said the current “change will not become chain that will tie all of us down.”
The cleric, who was running mate to Buhari during the 2011 Presidential Election under the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), also told journalists that the effects of years of wastage has caught up with the country.
“It is too early and to soon to begin to judge. If there is anything I know about Mr. President, it is that he has a good heart. He loves this country and he wants the country to run well. But it takes time. I know we are all impatient and in a hurry and I trust we will come out of the woods.
“When you are driving on a wrong direction, for example, you are going to Ibadan and you face Badagry and you get to Cotonou and you realise you have gone in the wrong direction for too long a time, then you make a u-turn, there will be some suffering you have to go through.
“Pain is part of gain. No pain no gain. The years of wastage and all that we have done wrong has finally caught up with us. All we are praying for is wisdom for this government to do things right and to do the right things so that gradually, we can begin to come out of the woods.
“I will like to appeal to all Nigerians that we should just excise a bit of patience. This change will not become chain that will tie all of us down. Change for good takes time and we should just exercise a little bit more of patience. We trust that government is listening and the leaders are listening too and they will respond to the yearnings and aspirations of Nigerians,” he said.
