The video in which the Senior Pastor of Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, declared himself as the successor of President Muhammadu Buhari has gone viral again.
The video resurfaced amid the news of the falling out of Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) with President Muhammadu Buhari and the move by a cabal within Aso Rock to replace the Vice President with a popular pastor of southwest origin.
Both Bakare and Osinbajo are from Osun State, with the incumbent Vice President belonging to the Redeemed Christian Church of God, which has Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye as the General Overseer, Worldwide.
In the sermon by Bakare, which those who attend Latter Rain Assembly said was around January 2019 but certainly before the 2019 presidential election, which Buhari as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, the fiery pastor said in the political ladder of the country, the President was number 15, while he was number 16.
Bakare said in part in the sermon: “Take it to the mountain top, if you have never heard it before I’m saying it to you this morning, in the scheme of things as far as the politics of Nigeria is concerned, President Muhammadu Buhari is number 15 and yours sincerely number 16.
“I never said that to you before.
“I never said that to you before.
“I make it plain this morning.
“I let you know it this morning.
“Nothing can change it in the Name of Jesus.
“He is number 15, I am number 16.
“To this end was I born and for this purpose came I into the world.
“I prepared you for this for more than 30 years.
“That is why if he wants to run in 2019, I do not oppose.
“He’s still number 15.
“It is when he steps out that I step in.
“His assignment is that of Moses: to take Nigeria to River Jordan.
“But he can’t cross it.
“It will take a Joshua to go to the other side and begin to distribute resources to the people of this nation.”
Indeed when the news of the move to replace Osinbajo broke, virtually all eyes turned in the direction of Bakare, who was once Buhari’s running mate for the presidency.
They lost.
With the report by Saturday Tribune over the weekend that Osinbajo is to be replaced by a South West pastor, the video then went viral again, suggesting that if Bakare replaces the Vice President, he is just a step away from replacing Buhari as president in 2023.