LP campaign spokesperson, Kenneth Okonkwo says leaked audio of Obi, Oyedepo is authentic

The Labour Party (LP) campaign council, has asked Nigerians
to disregard any insinuation of religious bigotry linked to a viral audio clip
of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the party, and David Oyedepo, the
founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide.

In the audio clip, a voice similar to that of Obi can be
heard asking the cleric to speak to the Christians in the south-west to vote
for him during the presidential poll, adding that the election is a “religious
war”.

Reacting to the viral audio clip, Kenneth Okonkwo, a
spokesperson of the LP campaign, in a series of posts on his official Twitter
handle said “political criminals are trying to spin the conversation as if the
LP candidate was making a religious comment”.

Just listen carefully:https://t.co/hu8cb6VoWX
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… pic.twitter.com/9lfOdtVy9J

— Kenneth Okonkwo (@realkenokonkwo) April 1, 2023

“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,” Okonkwo said.

 “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 Christendom because the politicians of the other party are
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.

“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.”

According to Okonkwo, it is the ruling party that has
declared religious war on Nigerians. He added that Nigerians “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.”