Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has hit back at the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying he is proud of the zero vote he got at the APC Presidential primaries with his integrity intact.

Tinubu’s media handlers have scolded Bakare over his Sunday’s state of the nation address where he urged Nigerians to reject a candidate who sees the presidency as his entitlement and who evades a debate in apparent reference to Tinubu.

Tinubu’s media team had described Bakare as a paperweight politician who got zero vote in the APC primary last year.

But in a further reply, Bakare wondered why the media team decided to respond to a man they tagged a paperweight politician.

He said,“Whyaretheythen givingany thought to what I said? Maybe their alleged“paperweight” is too heavy for them to carry.

“Cansomeonetellthesepeoplethatscoringzeroinaprimaryelection with one’strueidentityand credentials intact as wellhaving original certificates from well known schools: Primary,Secondary,collegesand Universitywithinandoutsideofthisnationisaveritablebadgeof honor, absolutely legitand unquestionable.

“OneoftheSpecialAdvisersthatIthoughthadsomesemblanceof nobilityhadtoutteroutrightliesandfalsehoodstosatisfyhis paymaster.

“Hesaidthat I did a video askingmembers of our church to votefor theircandidateandthenturnaroundtoaskthemnottovotefor him. Unfortunately, thereis no such video containing such falsehood.”

Bakare said in the video being circulated by Tinubu’s handlers, hemadeitclearthathe didnotendorsetheircandidate’s lifestyle, businessortypeofpolitics.

“Inthesaidvideo,Ineveraskedourmemberstovoteornotvotefortheir candidateoranyothercandidate. Bytheway,ourmembersarenot zombies.They,bythegrace ofGod havetheirownmindsandwill decidewho to voteforon theElection Day,” he said. (Daily Trust: Text, excluding headline)