Peter Obi Response To Leaked Audio Call With Bishop Oyedepo

Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi has responded to the purported audio recording of a telephone conversation between him and the General Overseer of Faith Tabernacle Church aka Winners, Bishop David Oyedepo as product of the endless forgeries All Progress Congress (APC).

VerseNews Nigeria reports that according to the tape Obi was heard begging Oyedepo to help canvass and mobolise Christain votes on the presidential election on February 25, 2023.

Responding to the audio tape, the Spokesperson Labour Party (LP) Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo in a series of tweet said it is a twist by some political criminals on the call between the former Anambra Governor and the clergy to religious statement.

According to Kenneth, Obi was urging the Oyedebo to help him push message of ‘equal stake’ of all Nigerians in the Nigerian project to his people and the Christendom because the politicians of the other party is carrying on this campaign as if it is a religious war.

He pointed out that Oyedpo was recommended to Obi after he (Obi) he visited the traditional ruler of Offa, the Olofa of Offa, who is a Muslim, but advised Obi to get the support of Oyedepo and be assured of his own support.

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Okonkwo tweeted “Our attention has been drawn to the publication of this audio tape of private conversation between

@PeterObi and Bishop Oyedepo. It is not surprising that these political criminals are trying to spin the conversation as if Obi was making a religious statement.”

“Firstly, the context of the conversation was aptly put by Bishop Oyedepo when he said “All Nigerians have equal stake in this nation, nobody has the right to claim that he is dashing something to someone”. “H E @PeterObi was simply urging the Bishop to help him push this message of equal stake of all Nigerians in the Nigerian project to his people and the christiandom because the politicians of the other party is carrying on this campaign as if it is a religious war.”

“To drive home this point, he informed him that he visited the traditional ruler of Offa, the Olofa of Offa, who is a Muslim, but who advised Obi to get the support of Oyedepo and be assured of his own support. No Politician has ever visited the Olofa of Offa.”

He added that the ‘same faith’ adopted by the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) has declared religious war on Nigerians and everyone must rise to fight the unconstitutional act of religious intolerance of other religions by the party.

“It is clear to everybody that the APC political party that has a Presidential Candidate, Vice Presidential Candidate, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, National Chairman of the Party all from one religion at a time the CJN is a Muslim is the Party that has declared religious war on Nigerians and we must all rise up together to fight this unconstitutional act of religious intolerance of other religions by APC.

“I went around with Obi on campaign train and never saw him discriminate against any religion. Of course he can’t because his Vice is a Muslim unlike APC. I resigned from APC because of their religious intolerance. Nigerians should disregard any insinuation of religious bigots about this tape” he added