{"id":170474,"date":"2025-07-20T23:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T22:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:47:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:47:57","slug":"immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders","title":{"rendered":"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Presiding overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged Nigerian leaders to immortalise former president Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n

Bakare, an associate of the late Awujale of Ijebu Land, Oba Sikiru Adetona and the late former president, Buhari, made the appeal at a news conference on Sunday to pay tribute to the late leaders.<\/p>\n

According to Bakare, the exit of the leaders, who were his great friends and nationalists on the same day, should be a rallying point for harnessing their patriotic legacies to move the nation forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found myself pondering the fact that both leaders died the same day,\u201d the pastor said.<\/p>\n

Bakare, a former presidential running mate to Buhari, eulogised their lives and legacies, saying that the three of them were friends brought together by providence for national cohesion.<\/p>\n

He said that Buhari\u2019s dream for a better Nigeria was peerless and resonated in his integrity and forthrightness to the nation\u2019s development while in office.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best Nigeria could do for the late former president is to advance his dream of a functional Nigeria, a Nigeria where there will no longer be oppression of any kind, advancement of the rule of law and judicious deployment of the nation\u2019s resources for the common good,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Bakare tasked Nigeria leaders to build on Buhari\u2019s legacies for an equitable and just nation.<\/p>\n

He decried the near one party state the nation might be narrowing into saying that such negated the progressive principles the former president stood for.<\/p>\n

He said that Buhari\u2019s quest for good governance and his policy interventions, including the not too young to run, opened the political space and paved the way for young Nigerians to be part of the nation\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n

According to him, Buhari\u2019s progressive stance can be deployed as a social mobilisation template that when internalised, can change the nation\u2019s social-economic sphere to advance development..<\/p>\n

Speaking of the late Awujale, Bakare expressed a deep sadness at his demise, referring to him as a father figure.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Nigeria<\/span> Follow Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Presiding overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged Nigerian leaders to immortalise former president Muhammadu Buhari. Bakare, an associate of the late Awujale of Ijebu Land, Oba Sikiru Adetona and the late former president, Buhari, made the appeal at a news conference on Sunday to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[7651,97,254],"class_list":["post-170474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-bakare","tag-buhari","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nImmortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Presiding overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged Nigerian leaders to i ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Presiding overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged Nigerian leaders to i ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-20T22:43:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-20T23:47:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753042784.756862.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-20T22:43:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-20T23:47:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders\"},\"wordCount\":359,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753042784.756862.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"bakare\",\"Buhari\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders\",\"name\":\"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753042784.756862.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-20T22:43:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-20T23:47:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Presiding overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged Nigerian leaders to i ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753042784.756862.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753042784.756862.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":675,\"caption\":\"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders - Nigeria","description":"The Presiding overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged Nigerian leaders to i ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders","og_description":"The Presiding overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged Nigerian leaders to i ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-07-20T22:43:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-07-20T23:47:57+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753042784.756862.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders","datePublished":"2025-07-20T22:43:03+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-20T23:47:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders"},"wordCount":359,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753042784.756862.jpg","keywords":["bakare","Buhari","Nigeria"],"articleSection":["all news","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders","name":"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753042784.756862.jpg","datePublished":"2025-07-20T22:43:03+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-20T23:47:57+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Presiding overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, CGCC, Pastor Tunde Bakare has urged Nigerian leaders to i ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753042784.756862.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753042784.756862.jpg","width":1200,"height":675,"caption":"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/immortalise-buhari-bakare-urges-leaders#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Immortalise Buhari \u2013 Bakare urges leaders"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}