Guest Lecture by Prof. Niyi Osundare at our event on Monday, July 9, 2012 themed: WHY WE NO LONGER BLUSH: CORRUPTION AS GRAND COMMANDER OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

Opening Remarks by Pastor Tunde Bakare at our public lecture on Monday, July 9, 2012 themed: WHY WE NO LONGER BLUSH: CORRUPTION AS GRAND COMMANDER OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

With a heavy heart and great trepidation, I stand before you this first Sunday of the year 2011 bringing you a message of hope in our seemingly hopeless situation. In the apostolic tradition of the likes of Saint Paul, the apostle, I stand in the place of weakness trusting God to make His strength perfect in our weakness. 

Exactly one year ago today, on the 10th of October, 2009, at the National Christian Centre in Abuja, we blew the Trumpet of Jubilee over our nation, Nigeria.

Saints and strangers, Gentlemen of the Press. It gives me great pleasure once again to stand before you and sound the alarm as we have always done when we foresee danger. It was Thomas Jefferson, the 3^rd American President, who spoke the immortal words: “Eternal Vigilance Is The Price Of Liberty.” 

Fellow citizens of our great country, those within our borders and those in Diaspora, it has become necessary for us at this critical juncture of our national life to bring a timely word to our people as we by God’s grace make sense of the non-sense that has permeated our polity since November 23, 2009 in the name of hanging onto power at all costs.

Fellow countrymen and women, I am here this morning to give account and to explain to every Nigerian why we took to the streets of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, on January 12, 2010. Just like you, I have read in the Dailies the comments of all and sundry regarding the “Save Nigeria Group\'s Enough is Enough Rally”.