The Government of Nigeria says the Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, must respond to more queries on the leaked audio involving him and founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo.
Obi responded after days of silence, that the purported audio was fake, and accused the Federal Government of spreading falsehood against him.
In a press briefing in London, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, challenged Obi to explain what the component of the leaked conversation was fake.
“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. In the aftermath of the leaked audio, Obi came out to say that it was a fake, doctored audio call.
“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?”
The Minister said the leaked audio had corroborated the position that Obi’s electioneering campaign relied on ethnic-baiting and religious bias.