I worked with El-Rufai on memo to Buhari, admits Tunde Bakare

Pastor Tunde Bakare, a top supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari, has admitted that he played a role in the memo written by Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai to the Nigerian leader.

Pastor Bakare is a very close of President Buhari's and was once his running mate on the platform of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011.

The Punch reports that Bakare admitted to his congregation at the Latter Rain Assembly in Ogba area of Lagos during a sermon on Sunday, March 26 that he and El-Rufai dropped off the memo at the presidential villa together.

He however denied that the report was meant to indict President Buhari or insult him. He accused enemies of the president who surround him of releasing the documents to the media and making things look bad.

 Bakare said: “I can never deny that I knew about the memo; I knew about it. I flew from Lagos to meet El-Rufai in Abuja to discuss the contents with President Buhari. There were just three of us at the meeting. “The memo was an assessment of what was going on; where mistakes had been made and things were not going on well; and what could be done to move the country forward. “It was not an attack on anybody or on the President but some sons of disobedience around President Buhari leaked the memo to Sahara Reporters to make it look as if it was meant to attack the President for their own selfish interests.

“Can you imagine that the memo was written in September last year and some people think that they could gain from that? Woe betides anyone who thinks he can further his interest by manipulating anything in this era.” NAIJ.com recalls that just some days after his memo written to President Buhari leaked to the media, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state finally revealed why he authored the controversial memo.

In an interview conducted by Daily Trust, Mallam El-Rufai said that the memo was sent to the president to right some wrongs in his administration.