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As more than 2,300 delegates of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Wednesday gather at Eagle Square, Abuja, to select their presidential candidate, one of the presidential aspirants, Pastor Tunde Bakare, could not secure a single vote.   Bakare, who is a Nigerian Prophetic-Apostolic pastor, had vowed to transform Nigeria if elected as the next Nigerian President.   TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Bakare had a "zero" vote, alongside the former governor of Imo State, Rocha Okorocha and Ikeobasi Mokelu.   However, his bid, having been quashed by the party's delegates, would have to return to pastoring the Latter Rain Assembly, which later metamorphosed to Global Citadel Community Church (CGCC).   On stepping down for another presidential aspirant, Bakare had strongly maintained that he would not let go of his political ambition.   According to Bakare, rather than stepping down for another presidential aspirant, he would step up.

  In his words: "I am not here to step down for anyone. I am here to step up as the 16th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”   The clergy became more famous after he was reportedly arrested in March 2002 after preaching sermons critical of then-president Olusegun Obasanjo.   He was the running mate of the Nigerian presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 Nigerian presidential election.   Bakare was a member and also Legal Adviser at the Deeper Life Bible Church before he left to join the Redeemed Christian Church of God where he not only became a Pastor but also originated and founded the Model Parish before he received the call to start the Latter Rain Assembly.   TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls that Bakare also said he would develop Nigeria like a genius if elected.   The delegates of the APC gathered to vote on Tuesday in a primary election to choose the party’s candidate for next year’s election to replace the President Muhammadu Buhari.   Buhari, who is stepping down after the two terms he is allowed in the constitution, arrived at the Eagle Square convention centre early in the evening of Tuesday before voting was to start.   The Nigerian leader has spent days leading up to the convention in negotiations with the APC’s leaders seeking unity over a party candidate.   He said: “The fate of the party depends on what we do here,” APC party chairman Abdullahi Adamu said, echoing Buhari’s call for unity in the ranks.   “We cannot go into the general election next year without putting our house together.”