Kenneth Okonkwo Confirms Leaked Phone Conversation Between Peter Obi And Bishop Oyedepo

A leaked phone conversation between the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church, has gone viral on social media.

In the audio clip, a voice similar to that of Peter Obi can be heard asking Bishop Oyedepo to speak to the Christians in the South-West and Kwara to vote for him in the presidential poll, describing the election as a “religious war”.

“Daddy, I need you to speak to your people in the South-West and Kwara, the Christians in the South-West and Kwara. This is a religious war. Like I keep saying: if this works, you people will never regret the support,” Obi said in the audio released by Peoples Gazette.

Reacting in a series of posts via his Twitter page, LP campaign spokesman, Kenneth Okonkwo said the conversation between Obi and Oyedepo was taken out of context by ‘political criminals’ who are trying to spin the discussion as if the LP candidate was making a religious comment”.

Okonkwo explained that Obi was simply urging the cleric 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 is carrying on this campaign as if it is a religious war.

He wrote, “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.

“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.

Okonkwo said it is the All Progressives Congress (APC) that has declared religious war on Nigerians and everyone must rise up and fight the ruling party.

“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 at a time the CJN is a Muslim is the Party that has declared religious war on Nigerians and we 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,” he said.

Listen to the conversation below:

In a telephone conversation leaked to Peoples Gazette, Peter Obi begged Bishop David Oyedepo to help canvass Christian votes on the eve of Nigeria’s presidential election.

Religion became central to the campaign after Bola Tinubu tapped a fellow Muslim running mate in a nation… pic.twitter.com/U2LmYVJ2kk

— Peoples Gazette (@GazetteNGR) April 1, 2023

Meanwhile, Bishop David Oyedepo has also denied the leaked conversation between him and Peter Obi, saying he never campaigned for any politician, noting that all political parties sought his prayers and advice before the election and he availed them.