Valentine Obienyem, a media representative for Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi, claimed that the recording of his principal’s chat with Winners Chapel founder Bishop David Oyedepo that was released was chopped out of context.
Obienyem also asserted that the leak was the fault of “our Nnewi prodigal brother.”
Obi appeared to be pleading with Oyedepo to get Christians to support him in the radio clip.
“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,” Obi apparently said in the trending audio.
But in a post on Facebook this Sunday, Obienyem said: “The badly doctored conservation with Bishop Oyedepo released by our Nnewi prodigal brother is the much they have discovered so far.
“They edited out the Muslim-Muslim ticket that led to the discussion, where Obi said that in a society like ours, religious balancing was a necessary consideration and that their recklessness had made Christians to assume it was a religious war.”
A Muslim-Muslim ticket was run by Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
