What Are You Doing At Kano Wedding When 110 Dapchi Girls Are Missing; Tunde Bakare Asks Buhari

Tunde Bakare, the head pastor at Latter Rain Assembly, has slam President Muhammadu Buhari for attending a wedding in Kano while 110 Dapchi girls are still in captivity.

Bakare, who was Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 presidential election, while addressing his church congregation on Sunday, expressed surprise that the president attended the wedding.

The president and 22 governors attended the wedding of Governor Umar Ganjude’s daughter and Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s son on Saturday.

Bakare said the action of the leaders showed the insensitivity of the people in power.

“Forgive my ill-mannerism, but I could not comprehend why a governor will celebrate the wedding of his daughter, and another governor of his son, on the front pages of newspapers, flashing it before our eyes, when other peoples’ daughters are in captivity,” he said.

“If any of them had lost a daughter in that captivity, would they celebrate that way? I know the Bible says rejoice with them that rejoice, but I do not know what the president of Nigeria was doing there.

“And somebody came to say, let me explain to you, it is Islamic tradition, before this time, about January, they had agreed, that he (Buhari) will be the one to give the bride away and (Bola) Tinubu will be the one to pay the dowry, and present the son, and they agreed long before now.

“I looked at him and said the president of Nigeria wanted to come to my daughter’s wedding, and I said to him, sir, don’t come. That is beneath your office. Face the work of the state and keep serving.

“And 22 governors showed up to mark register, when 110 daughters of citizens of your nation were captured by Boko Haram that you said you have already technically defeated?

“It just shows how insensitive our leaders are. We have gotten to a stage that our president has become a king and a monarch. That his son who rode his pleasurable bike that almost claimed his life, will be returning from an overseas trip, where he had received special healthcare that Nigerians cannot afford, that it took a whole minister of state to go and welcome him, because he has no job.”