The Federal Government through the Honorable Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has challenged the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, to provide clarifications as regards the conversation he allegedly had with a prominent Nigerian cleric.
The conversation which has been making rounds on social media for weeks now was an alleged lobbying of votes from Obi to the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo.
However, the ex-Anambra state Governor has come out to say that it was “a fake, doctored audio call.”
Addressing the media on Monday in London, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Obi should clarify what he meant by saying the leaked conversation was “a fake doctored audio call.”
“I need to draw the attention of Nigerians to the recently leaked audio of a conversation between the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, and the cleric.
“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.
”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.
“If it was doctored, which part of it was doctored?
“Is it the beginning, the middle or the end or is it the ‘Yes Daddy’ part of it, or where he said it was a religious war?”
He added: “From the outcome of the presidential elections you will see that Obi got his vote mostly from areas where he comes from and his religious leaning.
”This is not good for the politics of Nigeria and it is very dangerous.
“As a result of this kind of campaign, Nigeria is more divided than ever and people are being heard commenting either based on their religious position or ethnic origin.
”Many otherwise respected commentators are not left behind on the effect of this divisive politics,” he said.
