Bakare advises FG to postpone general elections to avoid bloodshed

Na wa ooo......Founder of Latter Rain Assembly, Pas­tor Tunde Bakare, Sunday urged the federal government to suspend 2015 general elections to forestall imminent bloodshed.
He made this comment while delivering a sermon enti­tled: “A Gathering Storm and Avoidable Shipwreck: How to Avoid Catastrophic Eurocly­don”.
The cleric said the gener­al polls should be shifted to avoid loss of innocent lives to insurgency and prolonged legal battle.
Bakare insisted that poor preparation for the polls, worsening insecurity, imposition of minority will, eco­nomic collapse, religious confusion, betrayals, scandals and persecution of opponents, sign-posted grave danger for the next electoral exercise across the country.
Bakare urged the government to resort to­Section 135(3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) to suspend the elections.
The section provides: “If the Federation is at war in which the territory of Nigeria is physically involved and the President considers that it is not practicable to hold elec­tions, the National Assembly may by resolution extend the period of four years men­tioned in subsection (2) of this section from time to time; but no such extension shall exceed a period of six months at any one time.”
The clergy clarified that: “I do not say this to be controversial but to clear the dust; I see President Goodluck Jonathan as the man whom both God and Nigerians had great expectation of, but as for now, had failed.
“However, there is still time to redeem his dignity if his name is to go down in the book of history as the greatest president in African.
“Be that as it may, my po­litical leaning is towards Mu­hammadu Buhari. I cannot claim not to know the issues surrounding the APC primary and the processes that led to the selection of his current running mate”, Bakare added.