The Federal Government has pressed Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi to explain his position about a leaked audio recording of a conversation he purportedly had with Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, said in a statement to the media on Monday in London that Obi should clarify his claim that the leaked discussion was “a phony doctored audio call.”
“I must alert Nigerians to the recently released audio recording of a conversation between the cleric and Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate.
“The leaked audio rattled Nigerians because we heard Obi pleading with the cleric to interfere on his behalf to convince Christians that this is a religious war and they should support him,” he said.
The minister said that in the aftermath of the leaked audio, Obi came out to say that it was “a fake, doctored audio call.”
The minister said, “If it is fake, it means it never took place. But if it is doctored, it means there was that conversation but it was manipulated.
“Obi needs to come out and make the clarification on whether the conversation did not take place or it took place, but it was doctored.