Fiery clergy and Senior Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Ogba, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, today, 1 December, was conspicuously absent from a thanksgiving service the church held.
Most churches elect to hold special services on first Sundays of a new month to demonstrate gratitude to God for his blessings in the past weeks or months.
Although, church activities, which began at about 10 a.m went on smoothly, Bakare, alongside his wife, Laide, were said to have travelled overseas on an evangelical mission.
In Bakare’s stead, a visiting clergy to the church, Pastor Simon Afolabi, officiated the service.
Afolabi, short of saying he is Bakare’s kindred spirit, eulogised the latter as a single individual who has influenced his priesthood the most in the last 15 years.
Clad in a cream-hued blazers over a pair of black trousers, Afolabi declared his deep impression of Bakare’s ministry gift and how he has helped him “in sorting out issues about priesthood.” He said he has continued to do a post-mortem of Bakare’s last visit to his First Love Assembly, based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Afolabi, whose sermon dwelt on the efficacy of God’s name, said he had come to remind the congregation of what they know and “not really to say anything new.”
“This is a remembrance service,” he said.
The church was brimful with worshipers, but the ineffective air-cooling system in the large auditorium saw many fanning themselves.
Perhaps a known problem in the church,some members of the congregation came with their hand fans.
Bakare, an in-and-out politician, was running mate to General Muhammadu Buhari on the ticket of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in 2011.
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