The Labor Party (LP) has accused the All Progressive Congress (APC) of tampering with leaked audio recordings of their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and prominent cleric, Bishop David Oyedepo because the APC had previously sworn that LP will be attacked by the media.
Recall that an audio clip attributed to Obi and Oyedepo went viral on Saturday in which the LP candidate would describe the just-ended presidential election as a religious war.
Meanwhile, Obi-Datti’s media office, through his spokesman, Diran Onifade, has accused APC of being behind the recording and propaganda aimed at tarnishing Obi-Datti’s image. Obi.
However, LP National Secretary Farouk Umar, speaking in an interview with Arise TV on Sunday, accused the APC Presidential Campaign Council of fearing the political movement led by their presidential candidate, Peter Obi, show off.
Umar reiterated that the leaked phone conversation was distorted by APC to convey a religious narrative against Obi.
He said:
“When you change the original content of an information, that information becomes fake.
“We have arrived at the conclusion that the audio is a fake audio, completely fake.
“We have it on record that the APC spokespersons have dared the Obidient that we are going to see media attacks.”
The secretary further accused the APC and other opposition parties of carrying out a blackmail campaign against Peter Obi.
He said,
“The opposition underrated the power of Nigerians to have good governance, they underrated everybody, the Obidient movement.
“When the (presidential election) voting was going on, before they realised that something is coming, that the wind, the movement is really coming to consume them, that is when they woke up to realize that there is a problem.
“So now, having gone to the ballot, having done what had done to doctor the results which we are still contending in court, they have no option now than to start blaming and accusing, blackmailing him (Peter Obi), bringing in disunity and religion.
“Obi is a movement, and he is sending fear into the powers that be; they never thought it was going to be like that, they didn’t know that Nigerians are so desperate for change, the narrative has already been changed, things are not going to continue the way they think it should be, Nigerians will never feel as if they are refugees in their own land.”
