I warned that ‘Emilokan’ politics would breed imperial presidency, says Bakare.

On Sunday, the senior Pastor of the Citadel Global Community Church, Tunde Bakare, said he warned against the “Emilokan” kind of politics.

President Bola Tinubu made the famous “Emi Lokan (It is my turn)” speech on June 2, 2022, ahead of the 2023 election following a seeming lack of support from former President Muhammadu Buhari.

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During a State of the Nation broadcast at his church in Ikeja, Lagos, on Sunday, Bakare warned that ’emilokan’ would breed an “imperial presidency”.

While speaking on current national issues, the cleric said, “I’m reminded of the warning that I sounded to Nigerians in January 2023 in my address titled, ‘Bridging the gap between politics and governance.

“I warned that the politics of entitlement, the ’emilokan’ type of politics, would breed an imperial presidency, one that would slide towards dictatorship and be intolerant of dissent.”

He also warned the Federal Government against making the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, a scapegoat over how he handled the country’s monetary policy.

According to him, Emefiele couldn’t have acted without presidential authorization.

“Mr Godwin Emefiele may have made the wrong judgement calls in managing Nigeria’s monetary policy, but he must not be made a scapegoat.

“In the provisions of the central bank of Nigeria, CBN Act 2007, there is every possibility that the erstwhile central bank governor did not act without presidential authorization.