The Labour Party campaign council has urged the public to disregard allegations of religious bigotry in a viral audio from an alleged phone conversation between Peter Obi and Bishop David Oyedepo.
The now-viral audio between Obi, Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 election, and Oyedepo, president of Living Faith Church known as Winners Chapel, was published by a digital media outlet People’s Gazette (PG) on Saturday.
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In the audio, the voice described as Obi’s appealed to someone whom Gazette said was Oyedepo to help him speak to Christian voters in Nigeria’s southwest voters and Kwara state in northcentral to support his presidential bid.
The voice purported to be that of Obi said the election was a “religious war”.
Meanwhile, Bishop Oyedepo said he has never campaigned for any politician during any election in Nigeria.
He said this on Sunday at the church’s headquarters in Ogun State while speaking on the subject of faith.
“Nobody had ever told me what to say in this world. No. I have never campaigned for anybody or speak on anybody’s behalf and I will not do that till I go to heaven,” Oyedepo said.
“There is no (political) party in this country that didn’t come to me for prayers and for advice. I advised them, some, they didn’t take. Those who chose to take it, they see results; those who said no, they are going about it (laughs). If you still come again, I will still tell you, it doesn’t change.”