Tunde Bakare

Tunde Bakare was born on the 11th of November 1955. He is a Nigerian prophetic apostolic pastor. He was said to have been arrested in the month of March 2002 after preaching a message particularly referring to the former president Olusegun Obasanjo. He was the opposing party for the presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 Nigerian presidential election. Tunde was a member and also the legal adviser at the Deeper life Bible Church before becoming a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God where he became a pastor and later founded his own church which is by name The Latter Rain Assembly.
Tunde Bakare was born into a Muslim home,but he later got changed to Christianity in the year 1974. He went to All Saints Primary School,Kemta,in Abeokuta and further to Lisabi Grammar school still in Abeokuta,after which he went on to study law at the University of lagos.he was called to Bar in 1981 and during his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)he practiced law with Gani Fewehinmi chambers,Rotimi Williams and Co and Burke and Co,solicitors. He founded his own law firm named Tunde Bakare and Co (El-Shaddai chambers) in October 1984. In May 1988,at the very height of his law profession,he was called into ministry(to serve God) and he started his own church which is Latter Rain Assembly (End-Time Church) which is now called the Citadel Global Community Church (CGCC)on 1April 1989 and he is the present ministering Overseer of the church.