Jonathan Belittled His Office By Kneeling In Front Of Adeboye ––Pastor Bakare

Is it right for a President to kneel in public for prayers? See what Tunde Bakare thinks:

"See, I am not saying that pastors should not pray for presidents, that man was representing an office; a whole nation crumbling before men of God because of political advantage they think they can get. And if the prayer will bail him out, let us wait and see....

"By going to kneel down in the open before the pastor, the man (Jonathan) did not even recognise the dignity of his office. If it were a private thing, it is okay for you to crawl or kneel but it is a whole nation. That office has been diminished by a man who does not know the worth of it and does not deserve to stay there for one more day."

He asked further, "The truth is who is preparing for 2015, which faction of the PDP? Is it the (Olusegun) Obasanjo faction? Or IBB faction? Or Jonathan faction? The governors' faction? Because PDP is a house divided against itself; it's a chicken that has begun to eat its own intestines." 

Do you agree with Pastor Bakare on the kneeling issue?

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Yes I do!

The primitive claim in nigeria is that pastors are fathers. I think this stems from an attempt to justify our traditional background by the leadership structure in the ancient Israel, where prophets select and install kings by divine guidance. Biblical record showed that the kings did call on the prophets as to fathers especially in moments of crisis.

This is not the situation however in the political climate in nigeria. Pastors are servant leaders to the people of God while a president is a ruler.

Personages like Pastor Adeboye have been honored by many politicians as father, yet that doesn't make him father to the sitting president in Nigeria.  He, Pastor Adeboye is an honorable man, no doubt.

We should discourage displays like this howbeit. I believe it was not done by Jonathan in sincerity. It wasn't a christian submission or deference, it was rather a political maneuver to secure votes from a mega church whose membership cuts across the states in nigeria.

Pastor Bakare is right.