Nigeria, July 16 -- A popular Pentecostal pastor in Nigeria, Tunde Bakare, has spoken on his failed prophecy that he would succeed the then-President Muhammadu Buhari.

Mr Bakare, the founder of Citadel Global Community Church (formerly known as the Latter Rain Assembly), spoke when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV's Politics Today on Monday.

Like Mr Buhari, who died in a London hospital on Sunday, the cleric is a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

He was Mr Buhari's running mate in 2011, when the latter unsuccessfully ran in that year's presidential election under the platform of the now-defunct Congress for Progressive Change.

Mr Bakare had, in a video clip circulating on social media, claimed there was a divi...