“Stop playing God,” Pastor Tunde Bakare tells President Tinubu, warning against the abuse of power and the rise of “motor park politics.
Pastor Tunde Bakare has issued a scathing rebuke of President Bola Tinubu’s administration during his Easter Sunday state-of-the-nation broadcast in Lagos.
The former presidential aspirant accused Tinubu of presiding over “a motor park brand of politics” that fosters legislative rascality and erodes constitutional order. “Stop playing God,” Bakare warned, urging a shift in leadership style as Nigeria faces heightened political and economic instability.
He condemned the Senate’s dismissal of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s sexual harassment petition and described Senator Onyekachi Nwebonyi’s tirade against Oby Ezekwesili as “street-level vitriol.”
On the economy, Bakare decried rising food inflation, a 430% fuel price hike, and worsening poverty, stating that “the heartbreaking reports of parents throwing their children over a fence in Ibadan… were tragically almost reminiscent of the biblical famine in Samaria.”
While acknowledging some gains, including a $5 billion increase in reserves, he called for transparency, empathy, and urgent reforms to end “the worst cost of living crisis in a generation.”