Pastor Tunde Bakare, senior pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, has announced that he will be running for Nigeria’s Presidency.

Bakare said this during the cross over service of the church at its auditorium on Akilo Road, Ogba, Lagos.

Although many members of his church are well aware of the political inclination of their pastor, the news still came to a number of them as a surprise.

Bakare told the congregation God spoke to him and instructed him to run for Nigeria’s Presidency and lead the country to prosperity and abundance.

Pastor Tunde Bakare wasn’t clear on whether he would be contesting in the country’s next presidential elections in 2019. He said God hadn’t told him the specific time for it.

However, taking time to pour out his mind on the matter to the congregation, he explained that the announcement was not an easy one for him but he had to inform them so they can join him in prayers.

Not a stranger to politics or politicians, Bakare contested as Vice Presidential candidate to Muhammadu Buhari during the 2011 elections which was won by the then incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan whom Buhari, interestingly, would later defeat four years later.

Meanwhile, not too far away from Pastor Bakare’s church is that of Pastor Chris Okotie of the Household of God at Oregun, who had also announced to Nigerians back in 2002 that he would be contesting the 2003 Presidential elections because God told him he would rule the country. But Okotie lost the elections including the subsequent ones he contested in 2007 and 2011.